Re: [Libmesh-devel] FE::inverse_map() not converging...

[Roy S. <roy...@ic...>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG) wrote:

> Which point locator class is he using?  In my experience the Tree based
> ones with a fairly small number of elements per bin help avoid this
> problem.
>
> Furthermore, it is not clear to me why this is getting tripped at all,
> since Elem::contains_point() calls FEInterface::inverse_map() with the
> secure flag set to false?

That's a very good question.  I didn't notice that contains_point()
turned off the secure flag.

Derek, would you run your code in gdb?  Stack traces of the places
where convergence is failing would help a lot.
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Roy