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<DIV>For the SNES solver, the option -mat_view printed out 12 matrices for 4
Newton iterations in a single load step. What these matrices are? I found some
are not boundary treated and the rest are. For the formers,</DIV>
<DIV>they are of course signular. Does this have something to do with the bad
convergence issue?</DIV>
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<DIV>Rong</DIV></BODY></HTML>