4 Meshes

A "mesh" is a collection of nodes and elements knit together in memory, as described in Section 1.2. Meshes are always referred to by an integer that serves as a handle to the local mesh.

This section describes routines to manipulate entire meshes at once: this includes calls to create and delete meshes, read and write meshes, partition and reassemble meshes, and send meshes between processors.

Only a few of the mesh routines are collective; most of them only describe local data and hence operate independently on each chunk.