[petsc-users] Element connectivity of a DMPlex

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM Noam T. <dontbugthedevs at proton.me> wrote:

>
> Thank you for the code; it provides exactly what I was looking for.
>
> Following up on this matter, does this method not work for higher order
> elements? For example, using an 8-node quadrilateral, exporting to a
> PETSC_VIEWER_HDF5_VIZ viewer provides the correct matrix of node
> coordinates in geometry/vertices
>

If you wanted to include edges/faces, you could do it. First, you would
need to decide how you would number things For example, would you number
all points contiguously, or separately number cells, vertices, faces and
edges. Second, you would check for faces/edges in the closure loop. Right
now, we only check for vertices.

I would say that this is what convinced me not to do FEM this way.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> (here a quadrilateral in [0, 10])
> 5.0, 5.0
> 0.0, 0.0
> 10.0, 0.0
> 10.0, 10.0
> 0.0, 10.0
> 5.0, 0.0
> 10.0, 5.0
> 5.0, 10.0
> 0.0, 5.0
>
> but the connectivity in viz/topology is
>
> 0 1 2 3
>
> which are likely the corner nodes of the initial, first-order element,
> before adding extra nodes for the higher degree element.
>
> This connectivity values [0, 1, 2, 3, ...] are always the same, including
> for other elements, whereas the coordinates are correct
>
> E.g. for 3rd order triangle in [0, 1], coordinates are given left to
> right, bottom to top
> 0, 0
> 1/3, 0,
> 2/3, 0,
> 1, 0
> 0, 1/3
> 1/3, 1/3
> 2/3, 1/3
> 0, 2/3,
> 1/3, 2/3
> 0, 1
>
> but the connectivity (viz/topology/cells) is [0, 1, 2].
>
> Test meshes were created with gmsh from the python API, using
> gmsh.option.setNumber("Mesh.ElementOrder", n), for n = 1, 2, 3, ...
>
> Thank you.
> Noam
> On Friday, May 23rd, 2025 at 12:56 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM Noam T. <dontbugthedevs at proton.me> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you the various options.
>>
>> Use case here would be obtaining the exact output generated by option 1),
>> DMView() with PETSC_VIEWER_HDF5_VIZ; in particular, the matrix generated
>> under /viz/topology/cells.
>>
>> There are several ways you might do this. It helps to know what you are
>> aiming for.
>>
>> 1) If you just want this output, it might be easier to just DMView() with
>> the PETSC_VIEWER_HDF5_VIZ format, since that just outputs the cell-vertex
>> topology and coordinates
>>
>>
>> Is it possible to get this information in memory, onto a Mat, Vec or some
>> other Int array object directly? it would be handy to have it in order to
>> manipulate it and/or save it to a different format/file. Saving to an HDF5
>> and loading it again seems redundant.
>>
>>
>> 2) You can call DMPlexUninterpolate() to produce a mesh with just cells
>> and vertices, and output it in any format.
>>
>> 3) If you want it in memory, but still with global indices (I don't
>> understand this use case), then you can use DMPlexCreatePointNumbering()
>> for an overall global numbering, or DMPlexCreateCellNumbering() and
>> DMPlexCreateVertexNumbering() for separate global numberings.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps I missed it, but getting the connectivity matrix in
>> /viz/topology/cells/ did not seem directly trivial to me from the list of
>> global indices returned by DMPlexGetCell/Point/VertexNumbering() (i.e. I
>> assume all the operations done when calling DMView()).
>>
>
> Something like
>
> DMPlexGetHeightStratum(dm, 0, &cStart, &cEnd);
> DMPlexGetDepthStratum(dm, 0, &vStart, &vEnd);
> DMPlexGetVertexNumbering(dm, &globalVertexNumbers);
> ISGetIndices(globalVertexNumbers, &gv);
> for (PetscInt c = cStart; c < cEnd; ++c) {
> PetscInt *closure = NULL;
>
> DMPlexGetTransitiveClosure(dm, c, PETSC_TRUE, &Ncl, &closure);
> for (PetscInt cl = 0; c < Ncl * 2; cl += 2) {
> if (closure[cl] < vStart || closure[cl] >= vEnd) continue;
> const PetscInt v = gv[closure[cl]] < 0 ? -(gv[closure[cl]] + 1) :
> gv[closure[cl]];
>
> // Do something with v
> }
> DMPlexRestoreTransitiveClosure(dm, c, PETSC_TRUE, &Ncl, &closure);
> }
> ISRestoreIndices(globalVertexNumbers, &gv);
> ISDestroy(&globalVertexNumbers);
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
> Thanks,
>> Noam.
>>
>
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