add a smaller matrix to a larger one?

[Matthew Knepley]

If the small matrix is dense, just use MatSetValues. If not, I do not
know of a nice way to do this, and would switch to using the individual
element matrices.

  Matt

On Jan 17, 2008 4:20 AM, Zhifeng Sheng <z.sheng at ewi.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I have a problem, I want to add a small matrix to a larger matrix, where
> the row and column indexes of the small matrix is mapped to global
> indexes of the global one.
>
> the problem comes from a kind of finite element method, however, I have
> to do some operations on the small matrix, and it prevent me from
> directly assembling the local entries. So I have local matrices and I
> would like to add it to the global one. At this moment, I have to get
> the matrix value and add it to the global matrix  one by one ...
>
> is there a better way to do it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Best regards
> Zhifeng
>
>
>



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