On 5/8/2019 9:20 AM, Stogner, Roy H wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2019, Povolotskyi, Mykhailo wrote: > >> can the PointLocatorTree find an element if the mesh is distributed ? >> >> Or it will only find elements that belong to the same MPI rank as the >> point? > If you're using DistributedMesh, a point locator will only be able to > find "semilocal" elements: elements that either belong to the MPI rank > making the call or are ghosted on the MPI rank making the call. The > locator will return a null pointer on ranks for which those elements > are remote. > --- > Roy
Thank you. Now it is clear. In order to filter out the "semilocal" elements I'm checking its processor_id. Michael. _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list Libmesh-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
