Martin, I think this is a question worthwhile for the mailing list: On Thursday 02 December 2010, Martin Steigemann wrote: > Can i ask another totally different question? I implement an elasticity dwr > solver and i use PETSc and p4est with your distributed triangulation and > everything works fine, thanks a lot for this functionality!! But is there a > possibility in p4est to control, how the triangulation is distributed? What > i mean, if you have a domain and on some regions the solution is smooth, > then you dont need so much refinement there and on other parts, at a crack > tip for example, you need more refinement. If you know this from the > beginning, can you say something like "split this part of the domain in 8 > parts, and all the rest of the domain in 2 parts" for example?
The partitioning happens in such a way that every processor has exactly the same number of cells, in each refinement cycle. So there is no geometric partitioning step involved where you can talk about "regions", and consequently no knobs to play with. But maybe I just misunderstand your question? Best W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Bangerth email: [email protected] www: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~bangerth/ _______________________________________________ dealii mailing list http://poisson.dealii.org/mailman/listinfo/dealii
