diff --git a/src/CelerisLab/body/jets.py b/src/CelerisLab/body/jets.py
index ebd14e9..b32ffaa 100644
--- a/src/CelerisLab/body/jets.py
+++ b/src/CelerisLab/body/jets.py
@@ -156,6 +156,17 @@ def jet_link_velocity(jets, shape, jet_id):
     return (amplitude[jet_id][:, None]*shape).astype(np.float32)
 
 
-def fine_hits_to_physical(hits_local, fine_origin, dx):
-    """Fine-local cell-index hits -> physical frame: origin + dx*(hit + 1/2)."""
+# Two coarse-unit frames coexist (see FixedPatchStepper docs): the patch
+# cell-edge frame puts coarse cell I's center at I + 1/2, while Simulation
+# geometry uses the integer-node frame with that center at I. Jets are
+# evaluated in the frame their region/field were written in; convert hits
+# explicitly, never by relabelling.
+
+def fine_hits_to_edge_frame(hits_local, fine_origin, dx):
+    """Fine-local cell-index hits -> coarse cell-edge frame: origin + dx*(hit + 1/2)."""
     return np.asarray(fine_origin, np.float64) + dx*(np.asarray(hits_local, np.float64) + .5)
+
+
+def edge_to_node_frame(points):
+    """Coarse cell-edge frame -> Simulation integer-node frame (shift by -1/2)."""
+    return np.asarray(points, np.float64) - .5
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_jets.py b/tests/unit/test_jets.py
index 60a7263..4a56c1e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_jets.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_jets.py
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
 from CelerisLab.body.jets import (Jet, Parallel, Radial, Sector, Tube,
-                                  fine_hits_to_physical, jet_link_shapes)
+                                  edge_to_node_frame, fine_hits_to_edge_frame,
+                                  jet_link_shapes)
 from CelerisLab.body.objects import SurfaceActuation
 from CelerisLab.lbm.curved_links import CurvedLinkSoA, surface_link_velocity
 from .test_state_regressions import device, make_field, manager
@@ -85,8 +86,36 @@ def test_selection_uses_true_hit_not_clipped_q():
 
 
 def test_fine_half_cell_frame():
-    np.testing.assert_allclose(fine_hits_to_physical([[0., 0.], [3., 1.5]], (4., 6.), .5),
-                               [[4.25, 6.25], [5.75, 7.]], rtol=0, atol=0)
+    edge = fine_hits_to_edge_frame([[0., 0.], [3., 1.5]], (4., 6.), .5)
+    np.testing.assert_array_equal(edge, [[4.25, 6.25], [5.75, 7.]])
+    np.testing.assert_array_equal(edge_to_node_frame(edge), [[3.75, 5.75], [5.25, 6.5]])
+
+
+def test_same_physical_hit_in_simulation_and_patch_frames():
+    # One physical circle: Simulation node-frame centre C; patch edge-frame
+    # centre C + 1/2; fine-local centre (C + 1/2 - origin)/dx - 1/2 as in
+    # prepare_fine_boundary. Fine hits mapped edge -> node must lie on the
+    # Simulation circle, and one node-frame Jet selects the same arc on both.
+    from CelerisLab.body.geometry.circle import CircleGeometry
+    C, R, origin, dx = np.array([10.3, 9.6]), 2.15, np.array([4., 3.]), .5
+    local = (C + .5 - origin)/dx - .5
+    fine = CircleGeometry(*local, R/dx).build_cut_links(40, 40)
+    coarse = CircleGeometry(*C, R).build_cut_links(24, 20)
+    fine_hits = edge_to_node_frame(fine_hits_to_edge_frame(
+        [(l.hit_x, l.hit_y) for l in fine], origin, dx))
+    coarse_hits = np.array([(l.hit_x, l.hit_y) for l in coarse])
+    np.testing.assert_allclose(np.hypot(*(fine_hits - C).T), R, rtol=0, atol=1e-12)
+    np.testing.assert_allclose(np.hypot(*(coarse_hits - C).T), R, rtol=0, atol=1e-12)
+    jet = Jet(Sector(tuple(C), .4, .5, R + .01, R - .01), Radial(tuple(C), inward=False))
+    for hits in (fine_hits, coarse_hits):
+        shape, jet_id = jet_link_shapes([jet], hits)
+        d = hits - C
+        angle = np.arctan2(d[:, 1], d[:, 0])
+        assert np.array_equal(jet_id == 0, np.abs(angle - .4) < .5)
+        np.testing.assert_allclose(shape[jet_id == 0], d[jet_id == 0]/R, atol=1e-12)
+    # Relabelling instead of converting moves every hit off the circle.
+    wrong = fine_hits_to_edge_frame([(l.hit_x, l.hit_y) for l in fine], origin, dx)
+    assert np.abs(np.hypot(*(wrong - C).T) - R).max() > .3
 
 
 def test_links_are_distinct_by_receiver_and_direction_and_overlap_rejected():