On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@59a2.org">jed@59a2.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:21:13 -0500, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If someone tells us, "I have a Stokes problem", we could search for 0<br>
> diagonals and create the partition for FS.<br>
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</div>I suppose this would work for some common cases, but there are lot of<br>
discretizations and pressure-dependent constitutive relations/boundary<br>
conditions that have nonzeros in the pressure block. I think some slip<br>
conditions can also produce zero or negative values in the momentum<br>
block.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do not disagree.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm not convinced that it's so much to ask people to provide an index<br>
set, considering that FieldSplit is a somewhat advanced thing anyway<br>
(based on sheer number of choices available, and (typical) sensitivity<br>
to those choices).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess the point here is somewhat like the point of DAs. It is a very limited</div><div>thing, but something many people do. So we provide a way to most easily</div><div>
do the very limited thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if this is useful enough, but it might be.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Jed<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener<br>