discretize.operators.DiffOperators.set_cell_gradient_BC

DiffOperators.set_cell_gradient_BC(BC)

Set boundary conditions for derivative operators acting on cell-centered quantities.

This method is used to set zero Dirichlet and/or zero Neumann boundary conditions for differential operators that act on cell-centered quantities. The user may apply the same boundary conditions to all boundaries, or define the boundary conditions of boundary face (x, y and z) separately. The user may also apply boundary conditions to the lower and upper boundary face separately.

Cell gradient boundary conditions are enforced when constructing the following properties:

• cell_gradient

• cell_gradient_x

• cell_gradient_y

• cell_gradient_z

• stencil_cell_gradient

• stencil_cell_gradient_x

• stencil_cell_gradient_y

• stencil_cell_gradient_z

By default, the mesh assumes a zero Neumann boundary condition on the entire boundary. To define robin boundary conditions, see cell_gradient_weak_form_robin.

Parameters:

BCstr or list [dim,]

Define the boundary conditions using the string ‘dirichlet’ for zero Dirichlet conditions and ‘neumann’ for zero Neumann conditions. See examples for several implementations.

Examples

Here we demonstrate how to apply zero Dirichlet and/or Neumann boundary conditions for cell-centers differential operators.

>>> from discretize import TensorMesh
>>> mesh = TensorMesh([[(1, 20)], [(1, 20)], [(1, 20)]])

Define zero Neumann conditions for all boundaries

>>> BC = 'neumann'
>>> mesh.set_cell_gradient_BC(BC)

Define zero Dirichlet on y boundaries and zero Neumann otherwise

>>> BC = ['neumann', 'dirichlet', 'neumann']
>>> mesh.set_cell_gradient_BC(BC)

Define zero Neumann on the bottom x-boundary and zero Dirichlet otherwise

>>> BC = [['neumann', 'dirichlet'], 'dirichlet', 'dirichlet']
>>> mesh.set_cell_gradient_BC(BC)