oka oka...<br>thaks<br>but... i don't understand very well....<br>what can i do with petsc and the unstructured mesh support? because you say that petsc does not make meshes so what it's new about the meshes in petsc ?
<br>i'm sorry but i'm very new in this area...<br><br>thaks again...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Knepley</b> <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 2/23/07, Niriedith Karina <<a href="mailto:niriedith@gmail.com">
niriedith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi !!<br>><br>> I'm new here...and i'm new a petsc user.. :P<br>> I want to know if petsc has support for meshes...<br>> I was reading about that and i need create a mesh but all the software that
<br>> i see are comercial ...so I use petsc for linear solver and matrices so if<br>> petsc create meshes it would be but easy for me .. so..<br>> help me ! :D<br><br>1) PETSc does not make meshes, but there are good free meshing packages,
<br> Triangle in 2D and TetGen in 3D.<br><br>2) The unstructured mesh support in PETSc is very new, and at this point is<br> probably only usable by expert programmers. If you feel up to it,<br>take a look<br> at the examples in src/dm/mesh/examples/tutorials. Otherwise, you can use
<br> the packages above and manage the construction of Mats and Vecs yourself.<br><br> Thanks,<br><br> Matt<br><br>> Thanks anyway...<br><br></blockquote></div><br>