PETSc CFD advice

[Matthew Knepley]

On 10/18/06, Nils Erik Svangård <nilserik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
> Last year I did my master thesis which consisted of converting and old
> fortran based CFD application using block structured explicit solver
> to use the PETSc framework.
> Now my mentor/supervisor has contacted me again, they are thinking
> about doing a unstructured solver and are looking at PETSc.
> I said that I think using PETSc is a good idea, and if they are going
> to write new code I think they should look at using C++ instead of
> Fortran (because I think C++ is better suported by PETSc).
> Was my advice any good? Any other advices they should look at before
> beginning?


While we do fully support Fortran, we have new more advanced features in
C++, so
I think yor advice was good as long as they can be comfortable in C++ :)
There is new
support for unstructured meshes in PETSc. It is still in alpha release, so
it is not in the
same category as the other PETSc structures, but I would encourage them to
look at
it. I recently gave a tutorial at Columbia (which I will post on the web
tonight), which
demonstrates some of this.

  Thanks,

     Matt

best regards
> /nisse
>
> --
> Nils-Erik Svangård
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>
>


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