<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 3:33 PM Salazar De Troya, Miguel via petsc-users <<a href="mailto:petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov">petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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 class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hello,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I am trying to understand the difference between the commands -pc_fieldsplit_schur_precondition and -fieldsplit_1_pc_type when we use -pc_fieldsplit_type schur. The first one I know from the manual that it
is the preconditioner for the Schur complement matrix. The second command seems to also be a preconditioner for the Schur complement matrix, as said here
<a href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/PC/PCFIELDSPLIT.html" target="_blank">
https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/PC/PCFIELDSPLIT.html</a> , what’s the motivation to have the first command then ? I might not be understanding some of the mechanics of PETSc</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The first command determines what will be used as the _preconditioning matrix_. The second command determines what preconditioner</div><div>will be built from the preconditioning matrix.</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 lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-5010871977374734937WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Miguel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Miguel A. Salazar de Troya</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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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>