On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Salazar De Troya, Miguel <
salazardet...@llnl.gov> wrote:

> That’s exactly what I was doing. I am playing with the example
> https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh/blob/master/examples/
> systems_of_equations/systems_of_equations_ex7/systems_of_equations_ex7.C
> where the mesh is built with HEX27, but the finite element is first order
> lagrange. Why is there this mismatch? I didn’t know that meshes could have
> an order, I thought it was up to the finite element space.
>

There are first and second order geometric elements and first and second
order finite elements in libmesh.

SECOND geometric + FIRST FE combo is allowed, but not ever node will have a
dof associated with it.

FIRST geometric + SECOND FE is not allowed for Lagrange elements.

-- 
John
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