<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 9:13 AM 袁煕 <<a href="mailto:yuanxi@advancesoft.jp">yuanxi@advancesoft.jp</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"><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 change but its value may or may not change </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" target="_blank">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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</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><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>
</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>