BVP and static condensation

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Hi,

I was wondering if the static condensation steps (involving harmonic_extension_trans, etc…) are performed internally by BVP if eliminate_internal is set for the bilinear form or if we should only use BVP if static condensation is not required.

Thanks,
Dow

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Hi,
BVP should respect the static condensation. Have you tried it and is there a problem?

Best
Christopher

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Thanks, Christopher!

No – as far as I know, there is no problem. I had just been looking at some code which seemed to indicate that BVP performed those steps simply based on the ‘eliminate_internal’ keyword, but I couldn’t find documentation to confirm that. That is a nice feature!

Best,
Dow