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Description
In parallel decompositions of FEM meshes a number of vertices may
be shared between more that only two processors.  These vertices
are typically located on intersections of face processor patches
and cause all kinds of trouble, both in terms or organisation and
communication.

In order to simplify this issue, a processor point communication
mechanism caters for all such points for a parallel decomposition.
They are colected in a single global list which gets globally
communicated (as necessary).  A processor point patch knows which
local processor points are in the global list and where.  In order
for this mechanism to work, the multiply-shared points need to be
elominated from all other processor patches as well.

Note: This patch is created automatically for parallel runs and is
not accessible through the run-time selection mechanism as the
user may get the construction wrong!


Source files

Definition in file globalProcessorTetPolyPatchCellDecomp.H.

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Namespaces

namespace  Foam

Classes

class  globalProcessorTetPolyPatchCellDecomp

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