<div dir="ltr">Yes, lets get this back on the list.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Young, Matthew, Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:may@bu.edu" target="_blank">may@bu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">Ah, oops - I was looking at the v 3.5 manual. I am certainly interested in algorithmic details if there are relevant papers. My main interest right now is determining if this method
is appropriate for my problem. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Jed mentioned that this will not work well out of the box, as I recall. It looks like very high anisotropy. There are heuristics in GAMG to deal with anisotropy, but I would not trust them on unstructured grids. You would want to play with '-pc_gamg_threshold x', x in [0 - 0.1].</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">My advisor used SuperLU on a sequential version of this problem years ago, but SuperLU_dist appears to not scale well.
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<div>Before any of that, though: Would you rather I redirect this to the petsc-users list? I emailed you directly because I worried that the discussion of my problem physics was detracting from PETSc-specific conversation but maybe this is a conversation better
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<div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You might look in the appendix of the "Multigrid" book by Trottenberg, et al. They have a listing of lots of physics problems and way to deal with them, with multigrid. Maybe they have something like your problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">The manual has material on this. Let me know if you want more detail, algorithmic, etc.
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<div>We recently had a brief discussion (along with Matt Knepley and Jed Brown) <span style="font-size:10pt">on the petsc-users list </span><span style="font-size:10pt">about a problem I'm working on for my thesis research. Since I'd like to explore what GAMG
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