[petsc-dev] resurrecting the finite element energy functions thread

[Geoffrey Irving]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> Geoffrey Irving <irving at naml.us> writes:
>> It isn't, the only difference is that the function I'm imagining needs
>> an extra quadrature rule argument.  Nothing here is complicated, so if
>> there are no particular opinions I'll write the function and send a
>> patch.  Can I write it hard coded to MPI_SUM first, and we can discuss
>> how to generalize it after that?  I am less clear on how to best write
>> the generalized version.
>
> That's fine with me.

Should the result be an array of PetscScalar or PetscReal?  My
application is for objectives, so PetscReal, but PetscScalar is more
generic.

Geoffrey