adding SNESSetLinearSolve()

[Matthew Knepley]

You might want to investigate FeasNewt from Todd Munson, which is
a very elegant solution of this problem.

  Matt

On 10/29/07, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some time ago I made a request for adding SNESSetLinearSolve(), in
> order to let users set a custom linear solve routine to SNES. I was
> not clear to me if this idea was finally accepted, so I want to ask
> again.
>
> I really needs this feature in the near future, I I would like this to
> go in the next petsc release. My use case is rather simple: I'm
> helping a coworker to use SNES for solving a nonlinear optimization
> problem related to mesh movement (that is, move nodes retaining
> element connectivities). This problem uses a regularized functional,
> wich introduces a global degree of freedom coupled with all others
> dofs. To avoid assembling a sparse parallel AIJ matrix with a dense
> column and row, we endup needing to solve two linear systems with the
> same matrix for actually solving the Hessian of the regularized
> functional.
>
>
>
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