Non-uniform 2D mesh questions

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Mon Jan 29 21:40:04 CST 2007


  Yaron,

   Is each one of these "blocks" a small rectangular part of the
domain (like a 4 by 5 set of nodes)? I don't understand what you 
want to do.

      Barry


On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, yaron at oak-research.com wrote:

> Hi all
>   I have a laplace-type problem that's physically built from repeating
> instances of the same block.
>   I'm creaing matrices for the individual blocks, and I'd like to reuse
> the individual block matrices in order to compose the complete problem.
> (i.e if there 10K instances of 20 blocks, I'd like to build 20  matrices,
> then use them to compose the large complete matrix)
>   Is a 2D DA the right object to do that? And if so, where can I find a
> small example of building the DA object in parallel, then using the
> different (for every instance) mappings of local nodes to global nodes  in
> order to build the complete matrix?
> 
> 
>   Thanks
>   Yaron
> 




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