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<DIV> I agree with you. Maybe I need to get the representative units. Also, maybe it is not reasonable to evaluate the </DIV>
<DIV>performance in my project just under the condition number.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV><PRE><BR>At 2012-08-20 21:10:08,"Barry Smith" <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> I think it is even simpler than this. Let your coupled matrix look like
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> ( A C12 )
> ( C21 B )
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> and the uncoupled be
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> ( A 0 )
> ( 0 B )
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> Now solving the uncoupled with GMRES, CG etc is actually solving at the same time two independent systems and the relative size of the
>eigenvalues of A and B don't really matter.
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> Jed is right that the first thing you need to do is
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>> 1. non-dimensionalize: scale your model to use some representative units so that the solution and residual are well-scaled
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>you want the A part and the B part in the Jacobian and function evaluations to have similar scales of values.
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>BTW: the FAQ has one sentence "Change the units (nondimensionalization), boundary condition scaling, or formulation so that the Jacobian is bet>ter conditioned."
>How about putting some references there and some good examples on how to do this? What this means? This is hard shit and we dismiss it in on>e sentence like a kindergartener can do it.
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> Barry
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>On Aug 20, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:07 AM, w_ang_temp <w_ang_temp@163.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a problem about the ill-conditioned matrix. I deal with the soil-water coupled problem in
>> geotechnical engineering. It can be demonstrated that the stiffness matrix of soil-water coupled problem is
>> ill-conditioned due to the coupled effects of large relative differences in stiffnesses and permeabilities
>> of materials. But it should not be ill-conditioned for soil-water uncoupled problem, although there is no derivation
>> in papers.
>> In my three models, the condition numbers are 3.5595E+05, 1.8849E+06, 9.0206E+07 for soil-water
>> coupled models and 5.2885E+04, 3.3826 E+05, 3.4565E+05 for soil-water uncoupled ones, respectively.
>> Therefore, in my opinion, the uncoupled models are also ill-conditioned due to the large condition
>> numbers.
>> However, when using GMRES, CG and CGS, the three models of uncoupled ones show rapid convergent rate
>> while coupled models have bad convergence performance.
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>> This indicates that the spectrum of the simpler model has a small number of outliers. It could be as simple as boundary condition scaling or it cou>>ld be more meaningful. The coupled model does not have that nice property, so convergence is slower. You should start with:
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>> 1. non-dimensionalize: scale your model to use some representative units so that the solution and residual are well-scaled
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>> 2. find an effective preconditioner. PCFIELDSPLIT might work well, but you have to understand methods to know how to drive it. Look at the exa>>mples and read through the literature in your field to find something you want to implement, then ask here if you need suggestions for how to imple>>ment. (It can often be done using only command line options.)
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