<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Witkowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.witkowski@tu-dresden.de" target="_blank">thomas.witkowski@tu-dresden.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There should be no null space from the Cahn-Hilliard equation.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You said all those boundary conditions are either Neumann or periodic. I guess it couples to the fluid variables without any null space?</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Is
there some black-box preconditioner that does not relay on LU
factorization at some point? I know that black-box approaches are
mostly not efficient, but I would have something I can work with.</blockquote></div><br><div>The SVD always works and will tell you about a null space, but of course it's very expensive.</div>