[petsc-dev] TSSolve web page JED and EMIL READ THIS!

[Barry Smith]

> On Feb 6, 2015, at 8:59 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>   So going back to my email, now with more clarity, do we get rid of
>>   the XXXSetSolution/RightHandSide() paradigm; this would void
>>   questions like Mark's about what the differences are between
>>   them**. But do we lose any useful functionality?
> 
> I think the main possible loss is if we want an automatic
> spatially-adaptive TSSolve.  The way I see it, the caller must provide
> an initial condition (on some grid)

   They could instead provide a "set initial conditions" function that the TS solver calls instead in that case. 
> and needs to know whether the
> returned solution is on a different grid.  I'm not convinced it's
> PETSc's business to deal with this (nontrivial user code tends to have
> so many external/auxiliary dependencies that I predict most will be
> calling TSSolve in their own adaptive loop anyway).
>  If it is PETSc's
> business, I don't have a problem with a new function that does adaptive
> solves.