No, you would need to use the more flexible DMPlex
> On Feb 7, 2019, at 3:04 PM, Danyang Su via petsc-users > <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > Dear PETSc Users, > > Does DMDA support different number of degrees of freedom for different node? > For example I have a 2D subsurface flow problem with the default dof = 1 > throughout the domain. Now I want to add some sparse fractures in the domain. > For the nodes connected to the sparse fractures, I want to set dof to 2. Is > it possible to set dof to 2 for those nodes only? > > Thanks, > > Danyang >