Dirichlet BC on Mixed Elements

Hello,

I am setting up a problem with MixElement() of 2 functions, the Dirichlet BC only applies to only one of the functions (one that corresponds to P1), how should I implement that? See the following code:

from dolfin import *
mesh    = IntervalMesh(20, 0, 1)
P1 = FiniteElement("CG", mesh.ufl_cell(), 1)
P2 = FiniteElement("CG", mesh.ufl_cell(), 1)
element = MixedElement([P1,P2])
V = FunctionSpace(mesh, element)

def Dirichlet_Left(x, on_boundary):
    return on_boundary and x[0] < DOLFIN_EPS

bc    = DirichletBC(V, Constant(100.), Dirichlet_Left)

The last line gives this error:

RuntimeError:

*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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*** Remember to include the error message listed below and, if possible,

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*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** Error: Unable to create Dirichlet boundary condition.

*** Reason: Expecting a vector-valued boundary value but given function is scalar.

*** Where: This error was encountered inside DirichletBC.cpp.

*** Process: 0


*** DOLFIN version: 2019.1.0

*** Git changeset: 15b823f2c45d3036b6af931284d0f8e3c77b6845

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Use V.sub(0) or V.sub(1) in your DirichletBC, as shown in for instance: https://fenicsproject.org/olddocs/dolfin/latest/python/demos/stokes-iterative/demo_stokes-iterative.py.html

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