Hi all,

I am playing with a vector-valued 2D problem (displacement vector u and v). 
Since I need to use the shape functions of a specific vertex, I export the 
DOFs numbering and its corresponding number of the vertex. As illustrated 
in FiniteElement 
<https://www.dealii.org/current/doxygen/deal.II/group__fe.html>, for 
quadratic 2D FE_Q element, the pair of DODs of a specific vertex are 
grouped as follows:

#DOF, #component, #within the base
0 0 0
1 1 0
2 0 1
3 1 1
4 0 2
5 1 2
6 0 3
7 1 3
8 0 4
9 1 4
10 0 5
11 1 5
12 0 6
13 1 6
14 0 7
15 1 7
16 0 8
17 1 8

However, for high-order elements (higher than or equal to 3), this pattern 
no longer exists. In other words, the DOFs of the same vertex are not 
grouped. Take 4th order 2D FE_Q as an example,

#DOF, #component, #within the base
0 0 0
1 1 0
2 0 1
3 1 1
4 0 2
5 1 2
6 0 3
7 1 3
8 0 4
9 0 5
10 0 6
11 1 4
12 1 5
13 1 6
14 0 7
15 0 8
16 0 9
17 1 7
18 1 8
19 1 9
20 0 10
21 0 11
22 0 12
23 1 10
24 1 11
25 1 12
26 0 13
27 0 14
28 0 15
29 1 13
30 1 14
31 1 15
32 0 16
33 0 17
34 0 18
35 0 19
36 0 20
37 0 21
38 0 22
39 0 23
40 0 24
41 1 16
42 1 17
43 1 18
44 1 19
45 1 20
46 1 21
47 1 22
48 1 23
49 1 24

I guess this suggests that we cannot simply assume the pairing of DOFs in 
vector-valued problems. My question is, is the numbering of the DOF is 
fixed among the same type of elements? Since I need to fetch the DOFs of a 
specific vertex, I guess FiniteElement::component_to_system_index() can 
help determine the current DOF number of a specific vertex. Do I need to 
check them for each element? or just check it once for a certain type of 
element?

Regards,
Lixing

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