Here is the test case that will show the BC constrain is broken after the 
refinement.

Thanks,
/ Ming
 

On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:41 AM, Roy Stogner wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Minq Q wrote:
> 
>> I am having a problem when using the periodic BC together with the mesh
>> refinement. When one BC is set to refine, the other paired BC is not
>> allocated the new nodes as it should.
> 
> That's actually correct - the new node is a hanging node on one side
> of the boundary, and shouldn't exist on the other until the element on
> the other side is refined.
> 
>> The strange thing is: The first time of the refinement is OK. But
>> from the second time the two paired BCs are become different.
> 
> There are currently two issues with combining the periodic BC and the
> AMR feature:
> 
> The "level 1 conformity" constraint is not supported across the
> boundary.  I.e. if you set enforce_level_one to true it will only be
> enforced on the mesh interior, not from one side of a periodic
> boundary to another.
> 
> The mix of AMR and periodic constraint equations may not be working
> correctly.  The two features are supposed to be compatible, but when I
> wrote the latter I was mostly using one or the other, or at best
> running periodic problems where the non-uniform refinement occurred
> away from the periodic BC, so I haven't tested it thoroughly.  If you
> can set up a test case (as simple as possible, please) where the
> constraints are coming out wrong, please post the code to the list,
> and we can at least see if it's a simple bug/fix.
> ---
> Roy

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