[petsc-users] How to improve this solver for Navier-Stokes equation (based on fieldsplit and lsc)

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Jun 14 10:43:47 CDT 2012


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2) Again, LSC is not doing anything for you right now, unless you are
> indeed giving an auxiliary operator. Use jacobi.


What do you mean by this? LSC just uses the block structure; it's not like
PCD or other user-defined Schur preconditioners. Note that it generally
requires -ksp_diagonal_scale (see src/ksp/ksp/examples/tests/ex11.c,
especially the options used for runex11 and runex11_2).
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