[petsc-users] Using real and complex matrices together

[Jed Brown]

It is not supported, sorry.  Some users do it with careful linking via
multiple shared libraries, but that is fragile and doesn't interoperate.

Evan Um via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> Hi PETSC users,
>
> Inside my codes, I have both complex and real matrices. To solve complex
> matrices, I build and use complex version of PETSC. In this case, is there
> any way to use real matrices too? Do you have such a PETSC code example?
> Until now, I have used complex matrices to represent real matrices by
> setting imaginary components of the real matrices to zero. Real value
> vectors are also realized by setting imaginary components to zero.
>
> In advance, thanks for your comments.
>
> Evan