# DM Manual Pages

<A HREF="../../../../../src/dm/tutorials/index.html">Examples</A><BR>

DM objects are used to manage communication between the algebraic structures in PETSc (Vec and Mat) and mesh data structures
in PDE-based (or other) simulations. See, for example, `DMDACreate()`.

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<a href="ex1.c.html">ex1.c</a><br>
 
<a href="makefile.html">makefile</a><br>