I wrote them years ago mainly because I thought they should exist.
But they were never actually used them for anything, and I don't
really know were they could be used either.  Supposedly they
could be useful for implementing problems without a minimization
formulation, but that's not currently planned, and I don't know
what the precise requirements would be, either.

Since the code is short and almost trivial, and easily resurrected,
this commit removes the two files.  For newcomers this will mean
two less files to wonder about.

That construction method is simply enough that the derivatives
can be computed manually.  This avoids the overhead of using
an AD system.

Lisa Julia Nebel authored 1 year ago and Sander, Oliver committed 8 months ago

The LocalIntegralStiffness assembles a tangent matrix by
suitably combining derivatives of the energy density with
derivatives of the geometric FE interpolation.  See the
detailed description in dune-gfe-manual.pdf.

This patch also includes a new test in localintegralstiffnesstest.cc.
It checks if the assembled matrix is the same as the one computed
by LocalGeodesicFEADOLCStiffness.

For a 3d Cosserat material I get a speedup of about 3x.