Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:

>> On May 6, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Paul Stephen Urbanczyk <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> However, this raises another question: shouldn't the coordinates behave 
>> differently than other field variables? In other words, shouldn't the 
>> periodic ghost points at the left end have coordinates (0-h) and (0-2h), 
>> rather than (1-h) and (1-2h)? And, at the right side, shouldn't the 
>> x-coordinates be 1 and 1+h?
>
>    I don't know. But I believe they should not; periodic boundary
>    conditions can be interpreted as having the domain [0,1) connected
>    at the two ends so there would never be coordinates less than 0 or
>    1 or larger. Another way, I think, of saying the same thing is that
>    if you take a point x in domain and add some positive distance d
>    then the coordinate of the result is give by fractionalpart(x + d)
>    something similar can be done for subtracting some distance. 

Additionally, making up coordinates for ghost points is not well-defined
for non-uniform or distorted grids.

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