From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@colostate.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 02:22:06 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Provide an error message that is more meaningful for global MG transfer operator.
X-Git-Tag: v9.6.0-rc1~257^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4243e59b13ab829558def91853a7615bbee88fe2;p=dealii.git

Provide an error message that is more meaningful for global MG transfer operator.
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diff --git a/include/deal.II/multigrid/mg_transfer_global_coarsening.templates.h b/include/deal.II/multigrid/mg_transfer_global_coarsening.templates.h
index 099632b7ac..04918c3309 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/multigrid/mg_transfer_global_coarsening.templates.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/multigrid/mg_transfer_global_coarsening.templates.h
@@ -1438,13 +1438,21 @@ namespace internal
                   dof_handler_fine.get_triangulation().create_cell_iterator(
                     cell_id);
 
-                if (cell_fine->has_children() == false)
+                if (cell_fine->is_active())
                   {
                     if (cell_fine->subdomain_id() != cell->subdomain_id())
                       flag = false;
                   }
                 else
                   {
+                    Assert(
+                      cell_fine->child(0)->is_active(),
+                      ExcMessage(
+                        "In building a transfer operator, we are "
+                        "expecting that a cell is not or at most once refined "
+                        "on the other multigrid level. But it is refined more than once. "
+                        "Are you trying to build a transfer operator across "
+                        "more than one level of mesh refinement?"));
                     if (cell_fine->child(0)->subdomain_id() !=
                         cell->subdomain_id())
                       flag = false;