Comment 2 for bug 1131088

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Anders Logg (logg) wrote : Re: [Bug 1131088] Re: New periodic bc fails for discontinuous elements

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:31:26AM -0000, Garth Wells wrote:
> DG methods will not work because integrals over periodic facets is not
> supported yet.
> Is it still sensible that a DofMap does something for discontinuous
> elements of order p > 0?

I'm not sure. The sensible thing would be to treat the periodic
boundary as a regular interior facet with correct jump terms. That
might be nice to have but might be difficult to implement. What's
needed is to define the two neighboring cells of those periodic facets
in the right way.

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Anders