From: Sean Ingimarson Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:39:50 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Glossary material id edit X-Git-Tag: v9.4.0-rc1~288^2 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F13627%2Fhead;p=dealii.git Glossary material id edit --- diff --git a/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h b/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h index 06f2ee072a..9f469df384 100644 --- a/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h +++ b/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h @@ -1304,7 +1304,13 @@ * either explicitly specify the material id, or if they don't, then GridIn * simply sets them to zero. Because the material of a cell is intended * to pertain to a particular region of the domain, material ids are inherited - * by child cells from their parent upon mesh refinement. + * by child cells from their parent upon mesh refinement. However, if material + * ids are being assigned in a parallel distributed computation, any + * refinement or coarsening step will disregard the id assignments when + * a cell is moved to another process. So one must be careful when a mesh + * has more than one material id and one plans on using multiple processors + * with refinement. It is however safe to assign material ids consistently to + * all coarse cells on all MPI ranks before executing any refinement. * * The material id is set and queried using the CellAccessor::material_id, * CellAccessor::set_material_id and CellAccessor::recursively_set_material_id