[petsc-users] Array of SNES's

[Justin Chang]

Timothee,

No i haven't tried, mainly because I don't know how. Btw I am not doing
this in C or FORTRAN, I want to do this in python (via petsc4py) since I am
trying to make this compatible with Firedrake (which is also python-based).

Thanks,
Justin

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Timothée Nicolas <timothee.nicolas at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello and happy new year,
>
> Have you actually tried ? I just declared an array of 10 snes and created
> them, and there is no complaint whatsoever. Also, something I do usually is
> that I declare a derived type which contains some Petsc Objects (like SNES,
> KSP, matrices, vectors, whatever), and create arrays of this derived types.
> This works perfectly fine in my case (I use FORTRAN btw).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Timothee
>
>
> 2016-01-06 11:53 GMT+09:00 Justin Chang <jychang48 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is it possible to create an array of SNES's? If I have a problem size N
>> degrees of freedom, I want each dof to have its own SNES solver (basically
>> a pointer to N SNES's). Reason for this is because I am performing a
>> "post-processing" step where after my global solve, each entry of my
>> solution vector of size N will go through some algebraic manipulation.
>>
>> If I did a standard LU solve for these individual SNES's, I could use the
>> same snes and this issue would be moot. But i am using the Variational
>> Inequality, which basically requires a fresh SNES for each problem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Justin
>>
>
>
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