Symbolic arguments in variational expressions
These classes are used for test and trial functions involved in variational formulations. Variational formulations could be specified by expressions, in the spirit of c++ embeded languages. A variable of the test type represents the formal argument (the test-function) in the definition of a linear form, as in:
geo omega ("circle"); space Xh (omega, "P1"); test v(Xh); field lh = integrate (omega, 2*v);
For a bilinear form, the test-function represents its second formal argument, while the first one is designed by the trial type:
trial u(Xh); test v(Xh); form m = integrate (omega, u*v), a = integrate (omega, dot(grad(u),grad(v)));
The field_vf class is abble to represents either test or trial types: it could be used to formaly define a differential operator, as:
D(u) = (grad(u)+trans(grad(u)))