<html>Hi,<br /><br />I would like to modify src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex45.c to implement Dirichlet boundary conditions using DM_BOUNDARY_GHOSTED instead of using DM_BOUNDARY_NONE and explicitly implementing the boundary by adding diagnonal-only rows.<br /><br />My assumption was that with DM_BOUNDARY_GHOSTED all vectors from that DM have the extra memory for the ghost entries and that I can basically use DMDAGetGhostCorners instead of DMDAGetCorners to access the array gotten via DMDAVecGetArray. But when I access (gxs, gys, gzs) = (-1,-1,-1) I get a segmentation fault. When looking at the implementation of DMDAVecGetArray it looked to me as if accessing (-1, -1, -1) should work as DMDAVecGetArray passes the ghost corners to VecGetArray3d which then adds the right offsets.<br /><br />I could not find any example using DM_BOUNDARY_GHOSTED and then actually accessing the ghost/boundary elements. Can I assume that they are set to zero for the solution vector, i.e. the u=0 on \del\Omega and I do not need to access them at all?<br /><br />Best,<br />Paul Große-Bley</html>