<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Lawrence Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lawrence.mitchell@imperial.ac.uk" target="_blank">lawrence.mitchell@imperial.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear petsc-users,<br>
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I have a 3x3 block system built as a single MatNest (with 9 Mats in it). I'd like to treat this as a 2x2 system:<br>
[ A B<br>
C D ]<br>
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where A is 2x2 and precondition the A block with a schur complement. Since I have a mat nest, the ISes for the three fields are just ISCreateStride(..., mat_i_rows, offset, 1, ...) and these are set on the fieldsplit pc. If I understand the documentation correctly, I think I should now be able to do:<br>
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-pc_type fieldsplit -fieldsplit_0_fields 0,1 -fieldsplit_1_fields 2 -fieldsplit_0_pc_type field split -fieldsplit_0_pc_fieldsplit_type schur<br>
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...<br>
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However, when doing so, I get an error: "To use Schur complement preconditioner you must have exactly 2 fields". Which suggests to me I have failed to inform PETSc that I want the first two fields to be treated as 1.<br>
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Note that I am not using a DM to build any of these objects. I build a SNES, pull the KSP out of the SNES and then the PC out of the KSP. I never explicitly call SetFromOptions on the PC. Instead, before the SNES solve I call SNESSetFromOptions. Might this be the problem?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is an unfortunately limitation of the implementation right now. This option works if you are on a DA with collocation, or if you</div><div>use a DM, but not if you just specify the ISes. We should probably write that code. However, the idea is for people to be moving</div>
<div>to using DM. Could you tell us why DM did not work for you here?</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Cheers,<br>
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Lawrence</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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