[petsc-users] Regarding ksp ex42 - Citations

[Barry Smith]

> On Jul 14, 2016, at 12:21 PM, domenico lahaye <domenico_lahaye at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear PETSc team, 
> 
> 1) I am looking into ks/examples/tutorials/ex42.c I am still new to the DMDA structure
>     and likely not giving it as much time as it deserves. However, I do not see immediately 
>     what function is responsible for calling PCMGSetSmoother and PCMGSetResidual. 
> 
>      I tried to call PCMGGetCoarseSolve(pc, &kcpc) and subsequently 
>      KSPGetOperators (kspc, ... ) to check how the coarse grid operator is defined 
>      after calling DMCoarsenHierarchy, but that failed. 
> 
>      I am solving Helmholtz with shifted Laplace, and managed to exploit DMDA to perform 
>      a multigrid solve on the preconditioner. In a next stage I want to implement the deflation 
>      using DMDA as well. 
> 
> 2) On http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/documentation/referencing.html I see 
> 
> @Misc{petsc-web-page,
>             author = {Satish Balay and Shrirang Abhyankar and Mark~F. Adams and Jed Brown and Peter Brune
>                       and Kris Buschelman and Lisandro Dalcin and Victor Eijkhout and William~D. Gropp
>                       and Dinesh Kaushik and Matthew~G. Knepley
>                       and Lois Curfman McInnes and Karl Rupp and Barry~F. Smith
>                       and Stefano Zampini and Hong Zhang and Hong Zhang},
>             title =  {{PETS}c {W}eb page},
>             url =    {http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc},
>             howpublished = {\url{http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc}},
>             year = {2016}
>           }
> 
> 
> 
> Is the last author mentioned twice intentionally? 
> 
> 3) On http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/publications/petscapps-bib.html#OpenFOAM%202.2.1 I see 
> 
> @misc{OpenFOAM
> ,
> 
> 
> title	=	"OpenFOAM",
> 
> howpublished	=	"\url{http://www.openfoam.com}",
> 
> url	=	{http://www.openfoam.com},
> 
> note	=	"OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package. It allows PETSc linear algebra and solvers to be used underneath.",
> 
> key	=	"OpenFOAM 2.2.1"
> 
> }
> 
> 
> Do you have more information on the use of PETSc within OpenFoam? 

  Very good question. It seems that this citation is wrong or no longer valid; I have removed it from the PETSc repository. I could find no mention of PETSc usage in the OpenFoam and its third party packages. I think we should not have been listing this citation.

   Barry

> 
> 4) @matt in response to a question he raised in Vienna
> 
> MIPSE is a BEM solver. Details are on: 
> http://www.g2elab.grenoble-inp.fr/plateforms/mipse-modeling-of-interconnected-power-systems-632862.kjsp?RH=G2ELAB_R-MAGE
> 
> Cheers, Domenico Lahaye. 
>