FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase Class Reference

#include <deal.II/fe/fe.h>

Inheritance diagram for FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase:

Public Member Functions
	InternalDataBase ()
virtual	~InternalDataBase ()
virtual std::size_t	memory_consumption () const

Public Attributes
UpdateFlags	update_each

Private Member Functions
	InternalDataBase (const InternalDataBase &)

Detailed Description

template<int dim, int spacedim = dim>
class FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase

A base class for internal data that derived finite element classes may wish to store.

The class is used as follows: Whenever an FEValues (or FEFaceValues or FESubfaceValues) object is initialized, it requests that the finite element it is associated with creates an object of a class derived from the current one here. This is done via each derived class's FiniteElement::get_data() function. This object is then passed to the FiniteElement::fill_fe_values(), FiniteElement::fill_fe_face_values(), and FiniteElement::fill_fe_subface_values() functions as a constant object. The intent of these objects is so that finite element classes can pre-compute information once at the beginning (in the call to FiniteElement::get_data() call) that can then be used on each cell that is subsequently visited. An example for this is the values of shape functions at the quadrature point of the reference cell, which remain the same no matter the cell visited, and that can therefore be computed once at the beginning and reused later on.

Because only derived classes can know what they can pre-compute, each derived class that wants to store information computed once at the beginning, needs to derive its own InternalData class from this class, and return an object of the derived type through its get_data() function.

Author

Guido Kanschat, 2001; Wolfgang Bangerth, 2015.

Definition at line 604 of file fe.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

InternalDataBase() [1/2]

template<int dim, int spacedim = dim>

FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase::InternalDataBase ( const InternalDataBase &  )

private

Copy construction is forbidden.

InternalDataBase() [2/2]

template<int dim, int spacedim>

FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase::InternalDataBase

(

)

Constructor. Sets update_flags to update_default and first_cell to true.

Definition at line 38 of file fe.cc.

~InternalDataBase()

template<int dim, int spacedim>

FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase::~InternalDataBase ( )

virtual

Destructor. Made virtual to allow polymorphism.

Definition at line 45 of file fe.cc.

Member Function Documentation

memory_consumption()

template<int dim, int spacedim>

std::size_t FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase::memory_consumption ( ) const

virtual

Return an estimate (in bytes) or the memory consumption of this object.

Definition at line 52 of file fe.cc.

Member Data Documentation

update_each

template<int dim, int spacedim = dim>

UpdateFlags FiniteElement< dim, spacedim >::InternalDataBase::update_each

A set of update flags specifying the kind of information that an implementation of the FiniteElement interface needs to compute on each cell or face, i.e., in FiniteElement::fill_fe_values() and friends.

This set of flags is stored here by implementations of FiniteElement::get_data(), FiniteElement::get_face_data(), or FiniteElement::get_subface_data(), and is that subset of the update flags passed to those functions that require re-computation on every cell. (The subset of the flags corresponding to information that can be computed once and for all already at the time of the call to FiniteElement::get_data() – or an implementation of that interface – need not be stored here because it has already been taken care of.)

Definition at line 638 of file fe.h.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• deal.II/fe/fe.h
• source/fe/fe.cc