[CIG-SHORT] RuntimeError: Determinant of Jacobian (1.74667e-08) for cell 0 is smaller than minimum permissible value (1e-06)!

[surendra at caltech.edu]

On Mar 16, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Lucas Abraham Willemsen wrote:

> 
> RuntimeError: Determinant of Jacobian (1.74667e-08) for cell 0 is smaller than minimum permissible value (1e-06)!
>  
> This message doesn't really help me a lot. I have no idea why the Jacobian is bad, when the mesh elements seem to have such a nice aspect ratio.
> 

Try changing your non-dimenionalizing parameters.  

     normalizer.wave_period = 0.1*s

Changing the wave period normalizer to 0.1 sec got rid of that error for me.  There are plenty of other setting that aren't set properly, though.

--Surendra
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