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Finite-element library for analysis and adjoint-based gradient evaluation
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Expose finite difference step size as an option in buckling problem #246

Open peter-greaves opened 1 year ago

peter-greaves commented 1 year ago

Would it be possible to expose the finite difference step size as a keyword argument when setting up a buckling problem? I think this could help resolve the issue of discrepancies between load factors/buckling modes between TACS and commercial codes.

timryanb commented 1 year ago

@peter-greaves have a look at the branch in this #248 if you want to try playing with the fd step size