* the two cells. If an interface DoF is only active on one of the
* cells, the other index will be numbers::invalid_unsigned_int.
*
- * For discontinuous finite elements each interface dof will correspond to
- * exactly one DoF index.
+ * For discontinuous finite elements, each interface dof is located on exactly
+ * one side of the interface and, consequently, only one of the two values
+ * returned is valid (i.e., different from numbers::invalid_unsigned_int).
*
- * @note This function is only available after a call to reinit() and can
- * change from one call to reinit() to the next.
+ * @note This function is only available after a call to reinit() and the
+ * returned values may change from one call to reinit() to the next.
*/
std::array<unsigned int, 2>
interface_dof_to_dof_indices(const unsigned int interface_dof_index) const;
/**
* The mapping from interface dof to the two local dof indices of the
- * FeFaceValues objects. If an interface DoF is only active on one of the
+ * FEFaceValues objects. If an interface DoF is only active on one of the
* cells, the other one will have numbers::invalid_unsigned_int.
*/
std::vector<std::array<unsigned int, 2>> dofmap;