Re: [Libmesh-users] element numbering

[Stogner, R. H <roy...@ic...>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, Griffith, Boyce Eugene wrote:

> For ReplicatedMesh, does each processor get a contiguous range of element IDs, or can the distribution be more irregular than that?

It can definitely be more irregular than that.  We guarantee
contiguous DoF IDs on each processor but never element or node ids.
Even when we do renumbering, on ReplicatedMesh it generally just
squeezes numbers down to fill in "gaps" created by adaptive coarsening
or other element deletion.
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Roy