[petsc-dev] DMplex reader / viewers

[Jed Brown]

Moving back to list.

Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu> writes:

> On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>
>> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>>>   - Reading from or writing to exodus files is not supported.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, I think this is the best target. It should be similar to writing HDF5
>>> that we do for PyLith.
>> 
>> How are we going to represent high-order elements in Exodus?  Doesn't it
>> only support quadratic continuous spaces?  What about DG spaces, H(div)
>> spaces, or higher than second order?
>
> It only supports first and second order elements. I don’t think that continuity is an issue. Nothing prevents you to alter the connectivity table.
> Element types is set by blocks, so mixing polynomial orders is not possible without some trickery

Do we consider this an acceptable long-term solution?
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