Re: [Libmesh-users] Question about PointLocatorTree

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

On Mon, 6 May 2019, Povolotskyi, Mykhailo wrote:

> can the PointLocatorTree find an element if the mesh is distributed ?
>
> Or it will only find elements that belong to the same MPI rank as the
> point?

If you're using DistributedMesh, a point locator will only be able to
find "semilocal" elements: elements that either belong to the MPI rank
making the call or are ghosted on the MPI rank making the call.  The
locator will return a null pointer on ranks for which those elements
are remote.
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Roy