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.


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