[petsc-users] choosing a preconditioner

[Richard Tran Mills]

For domain decomposition, I'd also recommend Barry's book (co-authored with 
Bjorstad and Gropp), "Domain Decomposition: Parallel Multilevel Methods for 
Elliptic Partial Differential Equations".  Google it and you'll find a preview 
in Google Books.

--Richard

Matthew Knepley wrote:
> The unfortunate part of the word "preconditioner" is that it is about as 
> precise as "justice".
> All good preconditioners are problem specific. That said, my quick 
> suggestions are:
> 
> Block box PCs: Yousef Saad's "Iterative Methods etc." is a good overview
> 
> MG: Bill Brigg's "Multigrid Tutorial" is good, and so is "Multigrid..." 
> by Wesseling
> 
> Domain Decomp: Widlund and Tosseli's Title I can't remember is good
> 
> but most really good PCs come from special solutions, linearizations, 
> frozen terms,
> recognizing strong vs. weak coupling, etc.
> 
>    Matt

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