<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:20 PM Swarnava Ghosh via petsc-users <<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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">Dear PETSc users and developers,<div><br></div><div>I am new to DMPLEX and had a query regarding setting up a consistent domain decomposition of two meshes in PETSc.</div><div>I have a structured finite difference grid, managed through DMDA. I have another unstructured finite element mesh managed through DMPLEX. Now all the nodes in the unstructured finite element mesh also belong to the set of nodes in the structured finite difference mesh (but not necessarily vice-versa), and the number of nodes in DMPLEX mesh is less than the number of nodes in DMDA mesh. How can I guarantee a consistent domain decomposition of the two meshes? By consistent, I mean that if a process has a set of nodes P from DMDA, and the same process has the set of nodes Q from DMPLEX, then Q is a subset of P.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okay, this is not hard. DMPlexDistribute() basically distributes according to a cell partition. You can use PetscPartitionerShell() to stick in whatever cell partition you want. You can see me doing this here:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/e2aefa968a094f48dc384fffc7d599a60aeeb591/src/dm/impls/plex/examples/tests/ex1.c#lines-261">https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/src/e2aefa968a094f48dc384fffc7d599a60aeeb591/src/dm/impls/plex/examples/tests/ex1.c#lines-261</a></div><div><br></div><div>Will that work for you?</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>I look forward to your response.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Swarnava</div><div class="gmail-m_-4766921637993663647gmail-yj6qo"></div><br class="gmail-m_-4766921637993663647gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>
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