<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:04 AM Yaxiong Chen via petsc-users <<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I am trying to use PETSC to solve a singular system like the following.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">This equals inserting rows and columns at arbitrary place(Actually I even don't know whether it is singular or not. Sometimes some degree of freedom x_i may not participate in the global matrix)</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I searched some discussion online and tried to remove the nullspace with the following code:</p>
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<div> call KSPCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,ksp,ierr)</div>
<div> call KSPSetOperators(ksp,Amat,Amat,ierr)</div>
<div> call KSPSetFromOptions(ksp,ierr)</div>
<div> call KSPSetType(ksp, KSPCG,ierr) </div>
<div> call MatNullSpaceCreate( PETSC_COMM_WORLD, PETSC_TRUE, 0, dummyVecs, nullspace, ierr)</div>
<div> call MatSetNullSpace(Amat,nullspace,ierr)</div>
<div> call MatNullSpaceDestroy(nullspace,ierr)</div>
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<div> call KSPSolve(ksp,bvec,xvec,ierr)</div>
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<div>But it still gives me some error saying <span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;font-family:Menlo;font-size:11px">Zero pivot in LU factorization.</span></div>
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this?</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you give the nullspace, the Kryloc method will work. However, you still cannot use factorization. So</div><div><br></div><div>1) -ksp_type gmres -pc_type jacobi will solve your system</div><div><br></div><div>2) -ksp_type gmres -pc_type svd will solve your system</div><div><br></div><div>Saying anything more general than that is really not possible.</div><div><br></div><div> Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-m_6762688828407887911divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" dir="ltr">
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><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><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/" target="_blank">https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>