[petsc-dev] [EXTERNAL] [pflotran-dev: 2718] Unintended consequence of CHKERRQ()

[Jed Brown]

Gautam Bisht <gbisht at lbl.gov> writes:

> Hi Jed,
>
> Earlier I completely missed your point. I believe the utility of
> SNESSetFunctionDomainError
> is that an application can determine if the state (xx) being passed to
> compute residual function is meaningful (eg. a pair of (P,T) could result
> in negative density). If the state is not meaningful, the application could
> simply call SNESSetFunctionDomainError() and not update the residual
> vector. This would cause SNES to exit with SNES_DIVERGED_FUNCTION_DOMAIN.

Yes.

> Looking at PFLOTRAN code more carefully, I now realize that Peter is
> using SNESSetFunctionDomainError()
> in FLASH2/MPHASE/MISCIBLE/IMMISCIBLE modes. I will now implement similar
> check for TH mode.

Great.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 818 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20141204/643f81c3/attachment.sig>