Re: [Libmesh-users] Given a physical (or reference, outside of domain) point, which element does it belong to?

[Zack V. <jan...@gm...>]

I think
http://libmesh.github.io/doxygen/classlibMesh_1_1SubdomainPartitioner.html#details

May help, but still not sure if this is the best approach


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Zack Vitoh <jan...@gm...> wrote:

> I could loop over (a subset of) all elements in the mesh, but is there a
> function within a class that achieves this (possibly more efficiently?)
>
> Thanks!
>
> PS: I am trying to incorporate a "nonlocal quadrature rule" where the
> nonlocal quadrature involves points outside of the current element.  If any
> other advice can be provided (e.g. specific classes/functions to look at)
> to this end, I'd appreciate it, as I am going about this in what feels to
> be a hackish, wrong way.
>