[petsc-dev] SNES, Coloring, DM, and TS

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 23:31, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I like this because we are using DM for our equation abstraction. I think
>> the dependency loops are due to refusal to
>> decompose the DM.
>>
>
> What do you mean by "decompose the DM"?
>

Right now, DMs wrap up
 - Domain Topology
 - Domain Geometry
 - Modeling approximation (like function spaces, projectors)
 - Modeling equations (including decompositions, variable substitutions)

and I may have forgotten some stuff. That is a huge amount of crap for one
object.

   Matt

-- 
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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