<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 8:20 AM Cotter, Colin J <<a href="mailto:colin.cotter@imperial.ac.uk">colin.cotter@imperial.ac.uk</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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Dear PETSc users,</div>
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I'm curious: how does PETSc compute the Schur complement matrix under the option pc_fieldsplit_schur_precondition full? Does it use sparse linear algebra?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The action of the Schur complement is always MatMult() KSPSolve() MatMult().</div><div><br></div><div>The precondition matrix can be formed several different ways: <a href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/PC/PCFieldSplitSetSchurPre.html">https://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/PC/PCFieldSplitSetSchurPre.html</a></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">
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all the best</div>
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--Colin</div>
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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>