[petsc-users] DMPlex in Fortran

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 12:03:16 CDT 2022


On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:52 PM Mike Michell <mi.mike1021 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to find the function you commented,
> DMPlexCreateInterpolator(), from DMPlex manual page, but I do not think
> this function is visible. Any comment about this?
>

Sorry, it is DMCreateInterpolation(), which in turn calls
DMPlexComputeInterpolatorNested/General.

  Thanks,

      Matt


> Thanks,
>
>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 11:26 PM Mike Michell <mi.mike1021 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using DMPlex for a code with written in Fortran in 2D and 3D. There
>>> were two questions.
>>>
>>> - As a follow up of the previous inquiry:
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov/msg43856.html
>>> Is the local-to-local halo exchange available in Fortran now or still
>>> pending? Currently local-to-global and global-to-local communication are
>>> used since local-to-local has not been allowed for Fortran.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, it is still on my TODO list. I am trying to get stuff cleared out.
>>
>>
>>> - One code solves discretized equations at each vertex, and another code
>>> I want to couple physics is solving equations at each cell centroid.
>>> Basically, the value at cell centroid needs to be mapped to vertex (or vice
>>> versa) through interpolation/extrapolation for coupling of two codes. Does
>>> petsc function provide this kind of mapping between cell centroid and
>>> vertex? The grids for the two codes can be overlapped. I was trying to find
>>> some FEM infrastructures in petsc, but so far havent found that kind of
>>> functionality. Can I get any comments on that?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, you can create both P0 and P1 discretizations
>> (PetscFECreateLagrange) in two different DMs using DMClone(), and then
>> create an interpolation operator (DMPlexCreateInterpolator) which maps
>> between them. Let me know if something is not clear there.
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>
>>     Matt
>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
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>> <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
>>
>

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