<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Zhang, Hong <<a href="mailto:hongzhang@anl.gov">hongzhang@anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Can you elaborate a bit more on your problem?<br>
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>> If your problem is an index-1 DAE, there is no need to use a projection<br>
>> method, and it is perfectly fine to set it up as a DAE in PETSc. For<br>
>> high-index DAEs, you may have to use TSSetPostStep() to implement your own<br>
>> projection algorithm.<br>
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> Please define index.<br>
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Think of it as a measure of singularity of the "mass matrix". Higher<br>
index DAE have more complicated constraints on compatibility of initial<br>
conditions. It's covered in any book or paper on DAEs.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Both your explanation and Hong's use of the term do not help Gideon (or me) know whether he has an index-1 DAE. There has</div><div class="gmail_extra">to be some simple form you can write down so that we can tell.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">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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