compute length of a specified edge

Asked by Xiaoxian Liu

Hi all,

Below is the code I tested:

### Beginning of code
from dolfin import *
mesh = UnitSquare(1,1) # Only 2 cells in total
mesh.init() # Compute all the connectivity
c1 = Cell(mesh, 1) # choose cell with index "1"

f0, f1, f2 = c1.entities(1) # Pull out the connectivity information of cell "1"

for f in [f0, f1, f2]:
    print "%d-th edge has length %g" % (f, c1.facet_area(f))

### End of code

And the error message reads,
*** Error: Unable to create mesh entity.
*** Reason: Mesh entity index 49 out of range [0, 5] for entity of dimension 1.
*** Where: This error was encountered inside MeshEntity.cpp.
*** -------------------------------------------------------------------------

However, for this simple example, the facet indices of the 3 facets are (f0=3, f1=1, f2=4). Is this a bug or I did something stupid?

Thank you!

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Best Jan Blechta (blechta) said :
#1

Problem is in c1.facet_area(f). Here f needs to be local (=w.r.t. cell) facet index (0,1,2 for triangle cell). But you call it with f=3,1,4 which is global entity index.

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Xiaoxian Liu (liuxiaox) said :
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Thanks Jan Blechta, that solved my question.