[petsc-users] DMGetCoordinatesLocal and DMPlexGetCellCoordinates in PETSc > 3.18

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Wed May 17 16:04:24 CDT 2023


On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 2:01 PM Berend van Wachem <berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>
wrote:

> Dear Matt,
>
> I tried it, but it doesn't seem to work.
> Attached is a very small working example illustrating the problem.
> I create a DMPlexBox Mesh, periodic in the Y direction. I then scale the Y
> coordinates with a factor 10, and add 1.0 to it. Both
> DMGetCoordinatesLocal and DMGetCellCoordinatesLocal.
> Then I evaluate the coordinates with DMPlexGetCellCoordinates. Most of the
> Y coordinates are correct, but not all of them - for
> instance, the minimum Y coordinate is 0.0, and this should be 1.0.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>

Quickly, I see that

  a *= 10.0 + 1.0;

is the same as

  a *= 11.0;

not multiply by 10 and add 1. I will send it back when I get everything the
way I want.

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Berend.
>
> On 5/17/23 17:58, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 11:20 AM Berend van Wachem <
> berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Dear Matt,
> >
> >     Is there a way to 'redo' the DMLocalizeCoordinates() ? Or to undo it?
> >     Alternatively, can we make the calling of DMLocalizeCoordinates() in
> the  DMPlexCreate...() routines optional?
> >
> >     Otherwise, we would have to copy all arrays of coordinates from
> DMGetCoordinatesLocal() and DMGetCellCoordinatesLocal() before
> >     scaling them.
> >
> >
> > I am likely not being clear. I think all you have to do is the following:
> >
> >    DMGetCoordinatesLocal(dm, &xl);
> >    VecScale(xl, scale);
> >    DMSetCoordinatesLocal(dm, xl);
> >    DMGetCellCoordinatesLocal(dm, &xl);
> >    VecScale(xl, scale);
> >    DMSetCellCoordinatesLocal(dm, xl);
> >
> > Does this not work?
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >
> >       Matt
> >
> >     Best regards, Berend.
> >
> >     On 5/17/23 16:35, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> >      > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:21 AM Berend van Wachem <
> berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>
> >     <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>>>
> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     Dear Matt,
> >      >
> >      >     Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> >      >
> >      >     If I scale each of the coordinates of the mesh (say, I want
> to cube each
> >      >     co-ordinate), and I do this for both:
> >      >
> >      >     DMGetCoordinatesLocal();
> >      >     DMGetCellCoordinatesLocal();
> >      >
> >      >     How do I know I am not cubing one coordinate multiple times?
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > Good question. Right now, the only connection between the two
> sets of coordinates is DMLocalizeCoordinates(). Since
> >     sometimes
> >      > people want to do non-trivial things to
> >      > coordinates, I prefer not to push in an API for "just" scaling,
> but I could be convinced
> >      > the other way.
> >      >
> >      >    Thanks,
> >      >
> >      >       Matt
> >      >
> >      >     Thanks, Berend.
> >      >
> >      >     On 5/17/23 16:10, Matthew Knepley wrote:
> >      >      > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:02 AM Berend van Wachem
> >      >      > <berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>
> <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de
> >     <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>> <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de
> <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>
> >      >     <mailto:berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de <mailto:
> berend.vanwachem at ovgu.de>>>> wrote:
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     Dear PETSc Team,
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     We are using DMPlex, and we create a mesh using
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     DMPlexCreateBoxMesh (.... );
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     and get a uniform mesh. The mesh is periodic.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     We typically want to "scale" the coordinates
> (vertices) of the mesh,
> >      >      >     and
> >      >      >     to achieve this, we call
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     DMGetCoordinatesLocal(dm, &coordinates);
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     and scale the entries in the Vector coordinates
> appropriately.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     and then
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     DMSetCoordinatesLocal(dm, coordinates);
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     After this, we localise the coordinates by calling
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     DMLocalizeCoordinates(dm);
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     This worked fine up to PETSc 3.18, but with versions
> after this, the
> >      >      >     coordinates we get from the call
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     DMPlexGetCellCoordinates(dm, CellID, &isDG, &CoordSize,
> >      >      >     &ArrayCoordinates, &Coordinates);
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     are no longer correct if the mesh is periodic. A
> number of the
> >      >      >     coordinates returned from calling
> DMPlexGetCellCoordinates are wrong.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     I think, this is because DMLocalizeCoordinates is now
> automatically
> >      >      >     called within the routine DMPlexCreateBoxMesh.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     So, my question is: How should we scale the
> coordinates from a periodic
> >      >      >     DMPlex mesh so that they are reflected correctly when
> calling both
> >      >      >     DMGetCoordinatesLocal and DMPlexGetCellCoordinates,
> with PETSc versions
> >      >      >       >= 3.18?
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      > I think we might have to add an API function. For now,
> when you scale
> >      >      > the coordinates,
> >      >      > can you scale both copies?
> >      >      >
> >      >      >    DMGetCoordinatesLocal()
> >      >      >    DMGetCellCoordinatesLocal();
> >      >      >
> >      >      > and then set them back.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >    Thanks,
> >      >      >
> >      >      >       Matt
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     Many thanks, Berend.
> >      >      >
> >      >      > --
> >      >      > 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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