[petsc-dev] How do you get RIchardson?

[Barry Smith]

On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 18:58, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am sure it does (Jed's bastard usage notwithstanding), however I could be fine with
> Richardson as long as the documentation clearly notes that this is Picard's method.
> 
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=picard+newton

   I looked at the first page of all of these and still don't have a clue of what Newton-Picard is

> 
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=picard+solver
> 

   I looked at the first page of all of these and still don't have a clue what Picard is; can someone show me a single publication that explicitly and concretely defines the Picard iteration which is an algorithm of solving nonlinear systems; is it anything you want it to be?

   Barry

> Which of these use your "standard" definition of "Picard"?