FacetFESpace loses DoFs after refining the mesh

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Hi,

I am trying to use the 0th-order FacetFESpace grid function as an indicator function of edges. However, it seems that after refinements, the FacetFESpace loses some DoFs.
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Does anyone know what is happening here? And if it does not work, I wonder how to write an indicator function that is 1 on an edge, and 0 everywhere else.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi,

if you draw the refined mesh you will see only 16 edges (corresponding to the 16 dofs of the FacetFESpace). The mesh also safes the 5 edges from the coarse mesh (e.g. needed for multigrid). Therefore, mesh.nedge is 16+5=21, and the FacetFESpace should work.

An alternative approach for an indicator function is to use a BoundaryCF

indicator_cf = mesh.BoundaryCF( {"left" : 1}, default=0)

which is 1 at the left edges and 0 else. This approach requires that the edges are parts of the boundary.

Best,
Michael

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That makes sense. Thank you so much!