From 63da0441a3753ed9c54ab32632eb4ece1dc7f425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bangerth Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:43:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Augment documentation. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@33026 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h b/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h index 719467946e..743a78ad03 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h +++ b/deal.II/doc/doxygen/headers/glossary.h @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ // --------------------------------------------------------------------- // $Id$ // -// Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 by the deal.II authors +// Copyright (C) 2005 - 2014 by the deal.II authors // // This file is part of the deal.II library. // @@ -884,6 +884,12 @@ * @ref distributed_paper "Distributed Computing paper" for more * information. * + * The layer of ghost cells consists of all cells that are face, edge, or + * vertex neighbors of any locally owned cell and that are not locally + * owned themselves. In other word, the ghost cells completely enclose the + * subdomain of locally owned cells (with the exception of the boundary of + * the domain, of course). + * * The concept of ghost cells has no meaning for triangulations that * store the entire mesh on each processor, i.e. the * dealii::Triangulation class. -- 2.39.5