<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Ling Zou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lingzou80@gmail.com" target="_blank">lingzou80@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1j2">So, is it correct to say that, we provide a Pmat matrix, the PC will use this Pmat to do the preconditioning operation (with an operation name M^{-1}, but it is only operations not really a matrix).<br>
<br>This Pmat can be obtained, for example, from a lower order method of the problem (as stated in the manual).<br>
<br>The PC in PETSc provides different options how to get this M^{-1} operations from the Pmat provide by the user.</div></blockquote></div><br>yes</div></div>