RE: [Libmesh-devel] MeshRefinement::coarsen_elements()

[John P. <pet...@cf...>]

Roy Stogner writes:
 > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, KIRK, BENJAMIN (JSC-EG) (NASA) wrote:
 > 
 > > I would not object to such an interface.  How would this be useful in your
 > > application?
 > 
 > I'm curious, too.  I can imagine uses for a uniformly_coarsen()
 > function (multigrid, error estimation, and quick-and-dirty plotting of
 > high degree elements), but I'm not sure why you'd want to just coarsen
 > some elements but wouldn't want to do so by simply using
 > refine_and_coarsen_elements() without having anything marked for
 > refinement.

I guess that would be OK too.  But there's not currently a way
to flag elements just for coarsening, all the routines flag for both
refinement and coarsening.  Of course, you could loop through and
set the Elem::REFINE flags to Elem::DO_NOTHING, but there should
be an interface for doing that.

-John