Dear vikram, Yes if you are running in serial or if you do not require any ghost layers, initialize the parameter input to zero. Otherwise, it should specify the the number of ghost layers of elements you need when running in parallel.
I'm not well at the moment but will update the documentation for DMMoab when I get back. Best, Vijay On Thu., May 20, 2021, 13:03 Barry Smith, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Probably. It is not documented unfortunately, but does seem to related > to the how many ghost layers are needed. > > Barry > > > On May 20, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Bhamidipati, Vikram < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am in the process of updating PetSc versions and I see that > ‘DMMoabLoadFromFile’ function (in dmmutil.cxx) has a new argument > ‘nghosts’. For those of us who don’t use ghost cells should we set it to 0? > > Thanks, > Vikram > > --------------------------------------------------- > Vikram Bhamidipati > Senior Research Engineer > Computational Material Integrity Section > Materials Engineering Department > Mechanical Engineering Division > Ph: (210) 522-2576 > > >
