[Gmsh] Mesh partition - point and line elements

Umut Tabak u.tabak at tudelft.nl
Thu Feb 5 17:54:43 CET 2009


B. Lazarov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to partion simple mesh using the partitioning libraries comming 
> with GMSH. The partitioning is fine however if I define physical lines and 
> physical points in the geo file,  in the resulting mesh file the line or the 
> point element  belong to partition 0.  For surface elements the partitioning 
> is done properly. Is it a bug? Or there is some other way around this 
> behaviour. 
>
> Best regards,
> Boyan
>
>
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Developers will reply it better but as far as I read from the METIS 
manual (which is the default graph partitioner in Gmsh), it can handle 
quadrangles, triangles, hexahedra and tetrahedra so it works for these 
elements. There are no algorithms for points and lines as I understand, 
I have not read about Chaco partitioner though.