<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Hello,</span><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588235294118)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">I am using Mumps to solve a problem with multiple time steps. The matrix structure does not changeĀ but its value may or may not changeĀ </span></font>
<span style="color:rgb(160,0,41);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">during those steps. That means I should reuse the symbolic factorization but recall numeric factorization when needed.</span><div><br></div><div>I have found the following anwser of a similar question</div><div><a href="https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2020-August/041846.html">https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2020-August/041846.html</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>which says "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">it automatically uses the same factorization", but I don't know if it includes numerical factorization also.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">My question is : </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">1. Does numeric factorization do automatically? If not</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">2. Could I control when </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">numeric factorization should be done and how to do it?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Much thanks</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">YUAN</span></div></div>