<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Dec 3, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Right now, TS just leaves the equation type as undetermined, and never queries it except for the IMEX methods. This seems really strange to me. If we choose a linear TS solver, shouldn't it set the type to LINEAR, and likewise for nonlinear? Then a user could query this for information. We want to do just that in PyLith.<br>
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</span> Is your concern that many of the examples never bother to set the type?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, since I want to query this to see what formulation the user expects.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Or that not enough error checking is done that the set type works with solution method selected by the user?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I think these are just oversights and you should go ahead and add these in the examples and code where appropriate.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Will do.</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"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">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</div>
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