[petsc-users] DMDACreateSection

[Barry Smith]

> On May 2, 2016, at 3:29 AM, Åsmund Ervik <asmund.ervik at ntnu.no> wrote:
> 
> On 02. mai 2016 10:13, Barry Smith wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 2, 2016, at 1:55 AM, Åsmund Ervik <asmund.ervik at ntnu.no> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> On 27. april 2016 10:21, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I will also note that I think this is correct for the future as well since
>>>> the DMForest implementation (the
>>>> wrapper Toby Isaac wrote for p4est) uses PetscSection as well, is memory
>>>> efficient, and does structured
>>>> AMR. I am switching everything I had on DMDA to use this. If you want help
>>>> in this direction, of course
>>>> I am at your service. I am currently getting my magma dynamics code to work
>>>> in this way.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Pardon me for intruding, but this DMForest looks very interesting if it
>>> can get me structured AMR for "cheap". Questions:
>>> 
>>> Will DMForest provide a more-or-less drop in replacement for usual DMDA
>>> for a finite difference/volume code? Does it do this already, or is it
>>> planned to?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> By the way, I see web rendering for my simple'n'stupid DMDA example is
>>> broken with 3.7.0 (and it's not linked to from the DM examples page):
>>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/src/dm/examples/tutorials/ex13f90.F90.html
>> 
>>   I suspect that it is the non-ASCII character in your name that that is causing the problem.
> 
> Aha. You may ASCII-ize my name as "Aasmund Ervik".

Fixed in main

> 
> Odd that it still works fine for 3.6:
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-3.6/src/dm/examples/tutorials/ex13f90.F90.html
> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Åsmund
>>> 
>> 
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