<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 3:19 PM Shashwat Tiwari <<a href="mailto:shaswat121994@gmail.com">shaswat121994@gmail.com</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"><div>Hi, <br></div><div>I am writing a first order 2D solver for unstructured grids with periodic boundaries using DMPlex. After generating the mesh, I use "DMSetPeriodicity" function to set periodicity in both directions. After which I partition the mesh (DMPlexDistribute), construct ghost cells (DMPlexConstructGhostCells),</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>These ghost cells are for FVM boundary conditions. If you want cells to be shared across parallel partitions, then you want to give overlap=1</div><div>to DMPlexDIstribute(). Is that what you want?</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> create a section, and set some initial values in the global vector. Then I use "VecGhostUpdateBegin" to start updating the boundary ghost cell values, but, I get the following error in case I use multiple processors:</div><div><br></div><div>[0]PETSC ERROR: Invalid argument<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: Vector is not ghosted<br>[0]PETSC ERROR: See <a href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html" target="_blank">https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/faq.html</a> for trouble shooting.</div><div><br></div><div>if I run with a single process, there is no error but the values remain empty (zero) and are not updated. Kindly let me know, if I am missing some crucial step before I can update the ghost values in order to implement the periodic bc, or if there is any other approach to achieve it. I am attaching a small code to demonstrate the issue for your reference.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Shashwat<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>