From a2236fa383619e797fe9278a13826f85426e45ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Joshua E. Hansel" <joshua.hansel@inl.gov>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:37:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added BlockRestrictable::blocksMaxDimension()

Refs #23794
---
 framework/include/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.h | 8 ++++++++
 framework/src/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.C     | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/framework/include/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.h b/framework/include/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.h
index a0f8fac7ff7a..e74d77d3d4af 100644
--- a/framework/include/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.h
+++ b/framework/include/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.h
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ class BlockRestrictable
    */
   const virtual std::set<SubdomainID> & blockIDs() const;
 
+  /**
+   * Return the largest mesh dimension of the elements in the blocks for this object
+   */
+  unsigned int blocksMaxDimension() const { return _blk_dim; }
+
   /**
    * Test if the supplied block name is valid for this object
    * @param name A SubdomainName to check
@@ -248,6 +253,9 @@ class BlockRestrictable
 
   /// Name of the object
   const std::string & _blk_name;
+
+  /// Largest mesh dimension of the elements in the blocks for this object
+  unsigned int _blk_dim;
 };
 
 template <typename T, bool is_ad>
diff --git a/framework/src/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.C b/framework/src/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.C
index aca124541987..69a07131001d 100644
--- a/framework/src/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.C
+++ b/framework/src/interfaces/BlockRestrictable.C
@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ BlockRestrictable::initializeBlockRestrictable(const MooseObject * moose_object)
       moose_object->paramError("block", msg.str());
     }
   }
+
+  // Get the mesh dimension for the blocks
+  if (blockRestricted())
+    _blk_dim = _blk_mesh->getBlocksMaxDimension(_blocks);
+  else
+    _blk_dim = _blk_mesh->dimension();
 }
 
 bool