<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 2:09 PM Saransh Saxena <<a href="mailto:saransh.saxena5571@gmail.com">saransh.saxena5571@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I am trying to incorporate newton method in solving a nonlinear FEM equation using SNES from PETSc. The overall equation is of the type A(x).x = b, where b is a vector of external loads, x is the solution field (say displacements for e.g.) and A is the combined LHS matrix derived from the discretization of weak formulation of the governing finite element equation. <br><br>While going through the manual and examples of snes, I found that I need to define the function of residual using SNESSetFunction() and jacobian using SNESSetJacobian(). In that context I had a couple of questions :-<div><br></div><div>1. In the snes tutorials I've browsed through, the functions for computing residual passed had arguments only for x, the solution vector and f, the residual vector. Is there a way a user can pass an additional vector (b) and matrix (A) for computing the residual as well? as in my case, f = b - A(x).x<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You would give PETSc an outer function MyResidual() that looked like this:</div><div><br></div><div>PetscErrorCode MyResidual(SNES snes, Vec X, Vec F, void *ctx)</div><div>{</div><div> <call your code to compute b, or pass it in using ctx></div><div> <call your code to compute A(X)></div><div> MatMult(A, X, F);</div><div> VecAXPY(F, -1.0, b);</div><div>}</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>2. Since computing jacobian is not that trivial, I would like to use one of the pre-built jacobian methods. Is there any other step other than setting the 3rd argument in SNESSetJacobian to SNESComputeJacobianDefault?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you do nothing, we will compute it by default.</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>Best regards,<br><br>Saransh</div></div>
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