On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu>
wrote:
>
>
> > However, I am also wondering if there is a way to set the interior_parent
> > in a more "automatic" way?  That is, currently I have to specify which
> > element will be the interior parent of an element, ensuring the selected
> > element is at least 1 degree higher in dimension.
>
> I'm afraid there's currently no avoiding this requirement on your
> initial meshes.  We should now be correctly setting interior_parent
> after mesh refinement and ParallelMesh redistribution, but the initial
> data comes from you.
>

Thanks for the clarification.


> > Will this be automated such that when a method like
> > *prepare_for_use* is called the interior parents will also be set?
>
> Hmm...  That wasn't on my todo list, and it would be a big change, but
> it's at least possible in principle, assuming the user shares nodes
> between the two elements in a consistent way.
>
> And it really needs to be on my todo list, doesn't it?  Otherwise
> we're not likely to handle restarts on mixed dimensional meshes
> properly without manual intervention.
>
> I don't know how many weeks (months?) it'll take before this works its
> way to the *top* of the list, though, so if you want to take first
> crack don't wait for me.
>

If we (Chris and I) have time in the next 7 weeks, we'll take a swing at
it. A few other things we need to hit first. For now, we'll just initialize
it ourselves.
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