petsc-3.9.4 2018-09-11
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DMPlexDistribute

Distributes the mesh and any associated sections.

Synopsis

#include "petscdmplex.h"   
#include "petscdmlabel.h"  
PetscErrorCode DMPlexDistribute(DM dm, PetscInt overlap, PetscSF *sf, DM *dmParallel)
Not Collective

Input Parameter

dm - The original DMPlex object
overlap - The overlap of partitions, 0 is the default

Output Parameter

sf - The PetscSF used for point distribution
parallelMesh - The distributed DMPlex object, or NULL

Note: If the mesh was not distributed, the return value is NULL.

The user can control the definition of adjacency for the mesh using DMPlexSetAdjacencyUseCone() and DMPlexSetAdjacencyUseClosure(). They should choose the combination appropriate for the function representation on the mesh.

Keywords

mesh, elements

See Also

DMPlexCreate(), DMPlexDistributeByFace(), DMPlexSetAdjacencyUseCone(), DMPlexSetAdjacencyUseClosure()

Level

intermediate

Location

src/dm/impls/plex/plexdistribute.c

Examples

src/dm/impls/plex/examples/tutorials/ex1.c.html
src/dm/impls/plex/examples/tutorials/ex5.c.html
src/dm/examples/tutorials/ex20.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex12.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex56.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex62.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex77.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex11.c.html
src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex48.c.html

Index of all DMPLEX routines
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Index of all manual pages