What happened to VectorElement?

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What has become of VectorElement? It is referenced in the ufl documentation and this tutorial but I can’t find its definition in the latest ufl version.

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On the main branch of DOLFINx, ufl.VectorElement has been replaced with basix.ufl.element(family, cell, degree, shape=(N,))
to create a N-dimensional vector space for a given Finite element family.

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what about the fem.VectorFunctionSpace is it also updated

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See: Add shape argument to `FunctionSpace` for creating blocked scalar element spaces by garth-wells · Pull Request #2766 · FEniCS/dolfinx · GitHub
as it highlights the api change

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i have tried used the command
from dolfinx.fem import (Expression, Function, FunctionSpaceBase, dirichletbc,
form, functionspace, locate_dofs_topological)

i am using FEniCSx on Colab research

ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 from dolfinx.fem import (Expression, Function, FunctionSpaceBase, dirichletbc,
2 form, functionspace, locate_dofs_topological)
3
4 shape = (gdim,)
5 Vu = dolfinx.fem.functionspace(mesh, (‘CG’, 2, shape))

ImportError: cannot import name ‘FunctionSpaceBase’ from ‘dolfinx.fem’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/dolfinx/fem/init.py)

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Just remove FunctionSpaceBasee as an import. That is what your error message is stating isn’t defined

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hi dokken,

i have even tried that and not able to create the vector functional space

we have

gdim = mesh.geometry.dim
M = functionspace(mesh, (“Lagrange”, 1, (gdim,)))

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in <cell line: 1>()
----> 1 M = functionspace(mesh, (“Lagrange”, 1, (gdim,)))
2
3 u = ufl.TrialFunction(Vu)
4 v = ufl.TestFunction(Vu)
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/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/dolfinx/fem/function.py in functionspace(mesh, element, form_compiler_options, jit_options)
592 ufl_e = basix.ufl.element(
593 e.family,
→ 594 mesh.basix_cell(),
595 e.degree,
596 shape=e.shape,

AttributeError: module ‘dolfinx.mesh’ has no attribute ‘basix_cell’

i am using FEniCSx on google colab

try:
import dolfinx
except ImportError:
!wget “https://fem-on-colab.github.io/releases/fenicsx-install-real.sh” -O “/tmp/fenicsx-install.sh” && bash “/tmp/fenicsx-install.sh”
import dolfinx

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Could you provide a minimal reproducible example, which I can run myself, as it Seems like you are not sending in mesh correctly, But i cannot be certain as you haven’t included all imports and definitions

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you surely have a from dolfinx import mesh at the top of your file, and are not creating the actual mesh (or maybe you are creating it, but calling it msh or domain)

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Note that screenshot is from the “latest” UFL document.

But:

$ python
Python 3.13.0 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Oct  8 2024, 20:04:32) [GCC 13.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ufl
>>> ufl.__version__
'2024.2.0'
>>> ufl.VectorElement
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-2>", line 1, in <module>
    ufl.VectorElement
AttributeError: module 'ufl' has no attribute 'VectorElement'

Moreover, google returns no hits for:

'2024.2.0' site:https://fenics.readthedocs.io

Here is my environment.yml file for conda:

name: ioniser
channels:
  - nvidia
  - conda-forge
  - default
dependencies:
  - fenics-dolfinx
  - python-gmsh
  - pyvista
  - scipy
  - petsc4py
  - fenics-ufl
  - cuda-toolkit
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That is not the latest documentation. That page is for the latest ufl compatible with dolfin.

For the latest documentation see https://docs.fenicsproject.org/

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