Hello Martin

I am patching many charts to define a manifold to cover the sphere. I use
MappingManifold. I suspect at the interface of two charts, which also
coincides with the mesh partition boundary, there may be some round off
error.

Best
praveen

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Martin Kronbichler <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Praveen,
>
> Called compress(VectorOperation::insert), but the element received from a
> remote processor, value 3.343515457745695e-15, does not match with the
> value -3.343515457745695e-15 on the owner processor 0
>
>
> I dont understand why this error is triggered.
>
> The error says that two processors have set the same vector entry to
> different values. On a VectorOperation::insert operation, the vector does
> not know which of the two conflicting values it should choose. This should
> not happen. Can you describe what kind of function you pass to the
> VectorTools::interpolate function? Given that the value is relatively
> small, I assume this happens because two processors decide to put the node
> location of a certain degree of freedom on a distance of machine epsilon
> apart. Given that they create different meshes, they will follow different
> paths down to a certain vertex along which they might refine differently.
>
> The reason the check fails is that we measure a relative distance between
> the two entries 3.343515457745695e-15 and -3.343515457745695e-15, which
> is of course O(1) and fails. Since I'm hesitating to simply put an
> additional absolute check (what should happen if 1e-15 is a big number and
> small numbers are 1e-30?), I would try to get a global idea of the
> magnitude of expected entries in the vector by computing an infinity norm.
> This is a debug section only, so the cost is no problem. Any other idea?
>
> Best,
> Martin
>
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