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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">No I don't think I'm using fieldsplitting although I want to use it. The output of
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KSP Object: 1 MPI processes</p>
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type: gmres</p>
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GMRES: restart=30, using Classical (unmodified) Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization with no iterative refinement</p>
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GMRES: happy breakdown tolerance 1e-30</p>
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maximum iterations=10000, initial guess is zero</p>
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tolerances: relative=1e-05, absolute=1e-50, divergence=10000</p>
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left preconditioning</p>
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using PRECONDITIONED norm type for convergence test</p>
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PC Object: 1 MPI processes</p>
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type: none</p>
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linear system matrix = precond matrix:</p>
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Matrix Object: 1 MPI processes</p>
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type: nest</p>
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rows=4608, cols=4608</p>
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Matrix object: </p>
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type=nest, rows=2, cols=2 </p>
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MatNest structure: </p>
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(0,0) : prefix="a00_", type=mpiaij, rows=3072, cols=3072 </p>
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(0,1) : prefix="a01_", type=mpiaij, rows=3072, cols=1536 </p>
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(1,0) : prefix="a10_", type=mpiaij, rows=1536, cols=3072 </p>
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(1,1) : prefix="a11_", type=mpiaij, rows=1536, cols=1536 </p>
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residual u = 2.6315e-05</p>
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residual p = 0.000229872</p>
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residual [u,p] = 0.000231373</p>
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discretization error u = 0.00633503</p>
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discretization error p = 0.121534</p>
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discretization error [u,p] = 0.121699</p>
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WARNING! There are options you set that were not used!</p>
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WARNING! could be spelling mistake, etc!</p>
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Option left: name:-fieldsplit_1_pc_type value: jacobi</p>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Thank you Matt. I've corrected it to
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">However the output is still:</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">residual u = 2.6315e-05</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> residual p = 0.000229872</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> residual [u,p] = 0.000231373</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error u = 0.00633503</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error p = 0.121534</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error [u,p] = 0.121699</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">WARNING! There are options you set that were not used!</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">WARNING! could be spelling mistake, etc!</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Option left: name:-fieldsplit_1_pc_type value: jacobi</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">the output is that nothing coming out. </span></p>
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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Thank you Matt for answering, however even with that I don't think it works. For example, the command
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<div>You have mistyped. Look carefully at my last message:</div>
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<div>I also want to note that you can see all the available options with -help. It does produce</div>
<div>a lot of output, but you can segregate it by prefix ("fieldsplit_1_"). You can also see the</div>
<div>prefix of each solver component using -ksp_view.</div>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">residual u = 2.6315e-05</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> residual p = 0.000229872</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> residual [u,p] = 0.000231373</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error u = 0.00633503</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error p = 0.121534</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error [u,p] = 0.121699</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">WARNING! There are options you set that were not used!</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">WARNING! could be spelling mistake, etc!</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Option left: name:-fieldsplit_1_type value: jacobi</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">Furthermore, if I look into the possible options with keyword fieldsplit involved by the command:</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">I get this output:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">eisenstat ilu icc cholesky asm gasm ksp composite redundant nn mat fieldsplit galerkin exotic hmpi asa cp lsc redistribute svd gamg tfs (PCSetType)</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> -pc_use_amat: <FALSE> use Amat (instead of Pmat) to define preconditioner in nested inner solves (PCSetUseAmat)</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> -ksp_type <gmres>: Krylov method (one of) cg groppcg pipecg cgne nash stcg gltr richardson</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> chebyshev gmres tcqmr bcgs ibcgs fbcgs fbcgsr bcgsl cgs tfqmr cr pipecr lsqr preonly qcg bicg fgmres minres symmlq lgmres lcd gcr pgmres specest dgmres (KSPSetType)</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> -ksp_max_it <10000>: Maximum number of iterations (KSPSetTolerances)</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">So I don't see any option that's similar to -fieldsplit_1_type. </span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 16, 2014 2:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sun, Hui<br>
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<div>This ("user_pc") is just a mnemonic. What it means is that you can use any PC in this slot. What he should have written is</div>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> residual u = 2.6315e-05</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> residual p = 0.000229872</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> residual [u,p] = 0.000231373</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error u = 0.00633503</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error p = 0.121534</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo"> discretization error [u,p] = 0.121699</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">WARNING! There are options you set that were not used!</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">WARNING! could be spelling mistake, etc!</p>
<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px; font-size:11px; font-family:Menlo">Option left: name:-fieldsplit_1_user_pc (no value)</p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">I'm wondering what's going on. Is that because I need some specific options during my configuring of the package? By the way, the version of PETSc I'm using is 3.4.4. </p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px; margin-left:0px">Best,</p>
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