On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, li....@siat.ac.cn wrote:
>
> > I have a question on the default ordering of multi-variables in a
> > system, e.g. u_x, u_y and p in Navier-Stokes equaiton.  Is the
> > default ordering of unknowns  (1) node by node with each node has
> > all variables;  or  (2)  field by field with each field (like, u_x)
> > has all node's values  ?
>
> The outermost ordering is always processor-by-processor: e.g. degree
> of freedom indices owned by MPI rank 0 will always have lower numbers
> than dof indices owned by rank 1.
>
> The default ordering within each processor's dofs is field by field.
>
> If you want node-by-node ordering (still within each processor's dofs)
> then you can pass the argument "--node_major_dofs" on the command
> line.
>

If all variables are the same type, then I thought "node major dofs" is the
default. I thought this was changed when Ben added the blocked-dofs
optimization. I could be mis-remembering though?

David
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