<div dir="ltr">I haven't tried the FD Jacobian. How do I enable that? I have been providing the Jacobian.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com" target="_blank">knepley@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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Harshad Sahasrabudhe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hsahasra@purdue.edu" target="_blank">hsahasra@purdue.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Does PETSc have automatic
differentiation capability? I'm solving an elliptic non-linear equation in which
calculating the correct Jacobian is extremely demanding. The system
doesn't converge with an approximate Jacobian. Is there any SNES solver I should try which doesn't use a Jacobian?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Do you mean it does not converge with the default FD Jacobian?</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"><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div>Thanks,<br></div>Harshad</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
</font></span></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>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</div>
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