[petsc-dev] Gathering information: types of interpolations in PETSc and which ones are supported?

[Lisandro Dalcin]

I vote for Lawrence's suggestion: DMPlexCompleteToplogy()

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 at 00:37, Hapla Vaclav <vaclav.hapla at erdw.ethz.ch> wrote:

> > 31. 8. 2018 v 22:23, Lawrence Mitchell <wencel at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 31 Aug 2018, at 20:52, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes. Unfortunately, the same word is used by topology people. I am
> willing to change this since very few people use it, when they do its
> >> only used once, and its completely different. It refers to figuring out
> the edges and faces automatically in a mesh when you get only cells
> >> and vertices. Better name?
> >
> > DMPlexCompleteToplogy?
> >
> > Lawrence
>
> I totally agree that coexistence of DMInterpolate and DMPlexInterpolate
> which do something fundamentally different is confusing.
>
> What about DMPlexInterpolateTopology (or DMPlexTopologyInterpolate?) -
> would still refer to "interpolation" if somebody is used to that and the
> same time more clearly distinguish from DMInterpolate. And as Matt says,
> it's usually used up to once per program so the longer name is not a pain.
>
> Vaclav
>


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