<div dir="ltr">So I need to manually create a PetscSection by using DMPlexCreateSection().<div>Am I right?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Barry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> 於 2018年12月10日 週一 上午8:40寫道：<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 7:31 PM Tsung-Hsing Chen <<a href="mailto:barrydog505@gmail.com" target="_blank">barrydog505@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Vertex-based is what I want.<div>Here I don't think I have created any PetscSection yet.<br><div>Do I need to create the PetscSection,</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. There is a manual chapter with this in it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div> if I already have a mesh file from gmsh?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is just topology and geometry. It says nothing about data layout.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>or just I simply use DMPlexGetConeSection() to get vertex-based vector?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is a Section which describes the layout of topology data.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,</div><div>Barry<br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@gmail.com</a>> 於 2018年12月10日 週一 上午7:27寫道：<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 5:47 PM Tsung-Hsing Chen via petsc-users <<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>I want to output a VTK file containing Vec which associate with DMPLEX, but I keep getting some errors.</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The really easy way is to put</div><div><br></div><div> ierr = VecViewFromOptions(x, NULL, "-myvec_view");CHKERRQ(ierr);</div><div><br></div><div>in your code and then give</div><div><br></div><div> -myvec_view vtk:sol.vtk</div><div><br></div><div>on the command line.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I use PetscViewerVTKOpen() to create the vtk file.</div><div>Then I saw many examples just use DMCreateGlobalVector() to create the Vec associate with DM.</div><div>However, almost all of them aren't DMPLEX but are DMDA.</div><div>I don't know whether it will cause some problems.</div><div>These is what I write:</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1) ALWAYS check return values. Your VecSetValue is failing.</div><div><br></div><div>2) VTK can only display two kinds of information, vertex-based and cell-based. DMDA only allows vertex based</div><div> information in Vecs. Since DMPLEX allows any kind of distribution, when we output VTK we need to determine</div><div> what kind of vector we have, vertex-based or cell-based. Here I cannot determine it, probably because your</div><div> PetscSection is not setup correctly. How is data supposed to be laid out on the Plex?</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div> PetscViewerCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD, &viewer);<br></div><div><div> PetscViewerVTKOpen(PETSC_COMM_WORLD, "vtk_output_test.vtk", FILE_MODE_WRITE, &viewer);</div><div> DMCreateGlobalVector(dm, &x);</div><div> VecSetValue(); //Set value for x</div><div> VecView(x, viewer);</div></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the error output:</div><div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Argument out of range</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Out of range index value 1 maximum 0</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: See <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html</a> for trouble shooting.</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.10.2, unknown </div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: ./test3 on a arch-linux2-c-debug named barry-PhysioMech by barry Mon Dec 10 05:52:19 2018</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-cc=gcc --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=gfortran --download-mpich --download-fblaslapack --download-mumps --download-scalapack --download-ctetgen</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: #3 VecSetValues_Seq() line 726 in /home/barry/petsc/src/vec/vec/impls/seq/bvec2.c</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: #4 VecSetValues() line 856 in /home/barry/petsc/src/vec/vec/interface/rvector.c</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message --------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Invalid argument</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Could not classify input Vec for VTK</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: See <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html</a> for trouble shooting.</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 3.10.2, unknown </div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: ./test3 on a arch-linux2-c-debug named barry-PhysioMech by barry Mon Dec 10 05:52:19 2018</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-cc=gcc --with-cxx=g++ --with-fc=gfortran --download-mpich --download-fblaslapack --download-mumps --download-scalapack --download-ctetgen</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: #17 DMPlexGetFieldType_Internal() line 134 in /home/barry/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plex.c</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: #18 VecView_Plex_Local_VTK() line 294 in /home/barry/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plex.c</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: #19 VecView_Plex_Local() line 335 in /home/barry/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plex.c</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: #20 VecView_Plex() line 382 in /home/barry/petsc/src/dm/impls/plex/plex.c</div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: #21 VecView() line 590 in /home/barry/petsc/src/vec/vec/interface/vector.c</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think the first part of the error comes from VecSetValue(), but I don't know how to fix it.</div><div>And I totally don't know what its mean in the second part of the error.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Barry</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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