<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Gideon Simpson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gideon.simpson@gmail.com" target="_blank">gideon.simpson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I’m working on a problem which, morally, can be posed as a system of coupled semi linear elliptic PDEs together with unknown nonlinear eigenvalue parameters, loosely, of the form<br>
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-\Delta u_1 + f(u_1, u_2) = lam * u1 - mu * du2/dx<br>
-\Delta u_2 + g(u_1, u_2) = lam * u2 + mu * du1/dx<br>
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Currently, I have it set up with a DMComposite with two sub da’s, one for the parameters (lam, mu), and one for the vector field (u_1, u_2) on the mesh. I have had success in solving this as a fully coupled system with SNES + sparse direct solvers (MUMPS, SuperLU).<br>
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Lately, I am finding that, when the mesh resolution gets fine enough (i.e. 10^6-10^8 lattice points), my SNES gets stuck with the function norm = O(10^{-4}), eventually returning reason -6 (failed line search).<br>
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Perhaps there is another way around the above problem, but one thing I was thinking of trying would be to get away from direct solvers, and I was hoping to use field split for this. However, it’s a bit beyond what I’ve seen examples for because it has 2 types of variables: scalar parameters which appear globally in the system and vector valued field variables. Any suggestions on how to get started?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Barry is right. However, I also really think we should have a nonlinear fieldsplit. I tried to write one (SNES multiblock), but no one has ever</div><div>used it. I would be willing to put some time in if you need it. You would likely nonlinearly precondition the Newton solve with this, which is</div><div>what X. Cai does to great effect in some problems he works on.</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"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-gideon<br>
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