<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Lois,<div><br></div><div>I use petsc through the fortran interface for my variational fracture mechanics code. (unstructured finite elements, 2d-3d). petsc has been instrumental in getting a parallel version. Sieve really helped me getting to large problems (largest to date being a 24M elements, 2,400 cores simulation, after which I cannot find tools to post-process my results)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The application area is somewhere between engineering, computational mechanics, and applied mathematics</div><div><br></div><div>I currently use Sieve, the KSP solvers and am in the (slow) process of adding TS. In the future, I will try to use VI in order to replace the optimization routines from TAO.</div><div><br></div><div>I have acknowledged petsc in the following publications (I don't think that any of them is listed on the petsc web page).</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">[Bourdin et al., 2011] Bourdin, B., Larsen, C., and Richardson, C. (2011). A time-discrete model for dynamic fracture based on crack regularization. International Journal of Fracture, 168:133–143. 10.1007/s10704- 010-9562-x.</div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">[Bourdin et al., 2010] Bourdin, B., Bucur, D., and Oudet, E. (2009/2010). Optimal partitions. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 31(6):4100–4114.</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">[Bourdin et al., 2008] Bourdin, B., Francfort, G., and Marigo, J.-J. (2008). The Variational Approach to Fracture. (reprinted from J. Elasticity 91(1-3):1–148, 2008). Springer.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">[Bourdin et al., 2008] Bourdin, B., Francfort, G., and Marigo, J.-J. (2008). The variational approach to fracture. J. Elasticity, 91(1-3):1–148.</div></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">[Kimn and Bourdin, 2007] Kimn, J.-H. and Bourdin, B. (2007). Numerical implementation of overlapping balancing domain decomposition methods on unstructured meshes. In Widlund, O. B. and Keyes, D. E., editors, Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XVI, volume 55 of Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, pages 309–315. Springer-Verlag.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">as well as in several conference proceedings, and talks.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">Blaise</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div><div>On Oct 25, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Lois Curfman McInnes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I am collecting information about PETSc use in Fortran applications. If you are a using PETSc via the Fortran interface, please send email (to me only, <a href="mailto:curfman@mcs.anl.gov">curfman@mcs.anl.gov</a>) to indicate:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> - application area</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> - what parts of PETSc are used </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> - pointer to any publications or other references </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Of particular interest are applications in which PETSc facilitated a transition to parallelism for an existing application that had previously been only sequential. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Thanks,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Lois</font></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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