[petsc-users] Setting up a matrix for Lagrange multiplier

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 10:20:53 CDT 2023


On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:16 AM Karthikeyan Chockalingam - STFC UKRI <
karthikeyan.chockalingam at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thank you for your response. I spend some time understanding how
>
> MatSetValuesLocal and ISLocalToGlobalMappingCreate work.
>

You can look at SNES ex28 where we do this with DMCOMPOSITE.


> Q1) Will the matrix K be of type MATMPIAIJ or MATIS?
>
> K = [A P^T
>
>        P   0]
>

I assume MPIAIJ since IS is only used for Neumann-Neumann decompositions.


> Q2) Can I use both MatSetValues() to MatSetValuesLocal() to populate K?
> Since I have already used MatSetValues() to construct A.
>

You can, and there would be no changes in serial if K is exactly the upper
left block, but in parallel global indices would change.


> Q3) What are the advantages of using MatSetValuesLocal()? Is it that I
> can construct P directly using local indies and map the entrees to the
> global index in K?
>

You have a monolithic K, so that you can use sparse direct solvers to check
things. THis is impossible with separate storage.


> Q4) I probably don’t have to construct an independent P matrix
>

You wouldn't in this case.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> Best regards,
>
> Karthik.
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> *From: *Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 18 April 2023 at 11:08
> *To: *Chockalingam, Karthikeyan (STFC,DL,HC) <
> karthikeyan.chockalingam at stfc.ac.uk>
> *Cc: *petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov>
> *Subject: *Re: [petsc-users] Setting up a matrix for Lagrange multiplier
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> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 5:24 AM Karthikeyan Chockalingam - STFC UKRI via
> petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I'm solving a problem using the Lagrange multiplier, the matrix has the
> form
>
>
>
> K = [A P^T
>
>        P   0]
>
>
>
> I am familiar with constructing K using MATMPIAIJ. However, I would like
> to know if had [A], can I augment it with [P], [P^T] and [0] of type
> MATMPIAIJ? Likewise for vectors as well.
>
>
>
> Can you please point me to the right resource, if it is a common operation
> in PETSc?
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>
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> You can do this at least 2 ways:
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>
>
>   1) Assemble you submatrices directly into the larger matrix by
> constructing local-to-global maps for the emplacement. so that you do
>
>       not change your assembly code, except to change MatSetValues() to
> MatSetValuesLocal(). This is usually preferable.
>
>
>
>   2) Use MATNEST and VecNEST to put pointers to submatrices and subvectors
> directly in.
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>
>
>   Thanks,
>
>
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>      Matt
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> Many thanks.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Karthik.
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> --
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> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
> experiments lead.
> -- Norbert Wiener
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