PartitionedModelBuilder

#include <modelbuilder/PartitionedModelBuilder.h>

class PartitionedModelBuilder: public ModelBuilder, public MovableObject

MovableObject

The PartitionedModelBuilder class is an abstract class. A subclass of PartitionedModelBuilder is a class which creates a partitioned finite element discretization of a structure: that is it discretizes the structure to be modeled into Elements, Nodes, Constraints, etc. and adds these components to the Subdomains of a PartitionedDomain. PartitionedModelBuilders can be used for creating models for analysis involving domain decomposition methods where there exist natural partitions or where a model has previously been partitioned and this information has been saved.

// Constructors

// Destructor

// Public Methods

// Protected Methods

Typically, a PartitionedModelBuilder is associated with a PartitionedDomain, this constructor sets up a link for the PartitionedModelBuilder and the domain, setting its link to the Domain object domain. The Domain domain is passed to the constructor for ModelBuilder, and the integer classTag is passed to the MovableObject classes constructor.

This is the constructor that is called when a PartitionedModelBuilder is to be created by an FE_ObjectBroker. The only method that can be invoked on such an object is buildSubdomain().

Does nothing.

The PartitionedModelBuilder will first check that the PartitionedModelBuilder was constructed with a PartitioneDomain, if not a warning message is printed and a \(-1\) is returned. If o.k. the object then determines the number of Subdomains, numSub in the PartitionedDomain. It then invokes buildInterface(numSub) on itself. Then for each Subdomain in the PartitionedDomain it invokes buildSubdomain(numSub, *this). If building the interface or any of the subdomains fails, a warning message is printed and a negative number is returned. Returns \(0\) if sucessfull.

This method must be provided by the subclasses. It is used to add any boundary nodes, nodal loads and constraints to the PartitionedDomain object. The integer numSubdomains is passed to provide information about the number of subdomains in the PartitionedDomain. To return \(0\) if successfull, a negative number if not.

This method must be provided by the subclasses. It is used to add nodes, elements, loads and constraints to the subdomain theSubdomain. The integers partition and numPartitions are used to identify which partition is being built and the total number of partitions. To return \(0\) if succesfull, a negative number if not.

Returns a pointer to the PartitionedDomain object passed in the constructor.