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<div class="">On Sep 2, 2021, at 9:24 AM, Alfredo J Duarte Gomez <<a href="mailto:aduarteg@utexas.edu" class="">aduarteg@utexas.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I am looking to implement a fully implicit BDF-DAE solver and I came across the TSBDF object <a href="https://petsc.org/release/src/ts/impls/bdf/bdf.c.html#TSBDF" class="">https://petsc.org/release/src/ts/impls/bdf/bdf.c.html#TSBDF</a>.</div>
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<div class="">This seems to be exactly what I am looking for, but I still have questions and I can't seem to find much from it in the documentation or the users manual.</div>
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<div class="">The key question for me is whether this is implementation is a <b class="">
Variable Leading Coefficient BDF </b>or <b class="">Fixed-Leading Coefficient BDF</b> (such as CVODE). This impacts my ability of reusing matrix factorizations.</div>
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<div>It is not FLC BDF. It uses the classic variable-step formula that computes the coefficients from the last stepsizes.</div>
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<div class="">Thank you,</div>
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<div class="">-Alfredo </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Alfredo Duarte</font>
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<div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">The University of Texas at Austin</font></div>
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