[petsc-users] Modeling a Network with DMPlex?

[Abhyankar, Shrirang G.]

On 2/10/14 11:45 AM, "Florian Meier" <florian.meier at koalo.de> wrote:

>Hi Shri, Hi Jed,
>thank you very much, that helped a lot!
>DMCircuit is perfect for my application!
>
>I have finally managed to get a very simple example running after I
>realized that comment lines inside of arrays are not allowed for pflow
>input format ;-)

Cool! Note that the input format is specific to the application and is not
a part of DMCircuit.

>
>I am going to implement a more complex example and will probably come
>across something for what I need your help again.

Please feel free to ask any questions you have. As DMCircuit is a recent
development, your questions/comments/suggestions will help
us to improve this feature.

It would be great if you could contribute your simple example as a
tutorial example for DMCircuit.

Thanks,
Shri

>
>Thanks again,
>Florian
>
>On 02/10/2014 08:33 AM, Abhyankar, Shrirang G. wrote:
>> Hi Florian,
>>  You can use DMPlex directly as Jed suggests or you can use a new DM
>>that
>> has been
>> added recently to PETSc specifically for circuit/network/graph
>> applications. This DM, named DMCircuit, is built on top of
>> DMPlex. It is currently in the next branch of PETSc and there is an
>> example from a power grid
>> application in src/snes/examples/tutorials/pflow.
>> 
>> Take a look at DMCircuit and let us know if you want to use it. I'll
>>give
>> you more information on its usage if you are
>> interested.
>> 
>> Shri
>> 
>> On 2/10/14 12:35 AM, "Jed Brown" <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Florian Meier <florian.meier at koalo.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I would like to solve a non-linear equation system over a computer
>>>> network. This is somewhat similar to FEM. There is a bunch of
>>>> equations for each link that includes variables of adjacent links. I
>>>> assume there is some support in PETSc for mapping the network to
>>>> memory, distribute it and iterate over the adjacent links, but all
>>>> examples I could found for DMPlex are so tightly coupled to FEM that I
>>>> am not able to separate the relevant parts from the parts that are
>>>> only needed for FEM (e.g. continuous elements, discretization).
>>>>
>>>> Is DMPlex actually the right place to look?
>>>
>>> You can describe a network having only edges and vertices.  This sounds
>>> similar to what Shri does for power networks.  You wouldn't use the FEM
>>> interfaces, but the DMPlex primitives still apply.
>> 
>> You can We've recently added a DM for problems arising from circuit
>> applications that may be
>> of use to you. The interface is called DMCircuit and is currently in the
>> next branch of PETSc.
>> There is currently one DMCircuit example coming from a power grid
>> application 
>> in src/snes/examples/tutorials/circuit/pflow.
>> 
>> 
>>>
>>