solve PDEs in spherical coordinates

[Matthew Knepley]

PETSc currently handles only linear algebra, so you would need to
first produce a linear (or nonlinear) system.

  Thanks,

    Matt

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:37:14 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Cheeseman <mpch at cscs.ch>
> Reply-To: mpch at cscs.ch
> To: petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: solve PDEs in spherical coordinates
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to solve/integrate a system of 4 PDEs over /inside a
> spherical domain.?? How can I accomplish this in PETSc??? Do I need
> convert the equations into Matrix-vector form first (along with all the
> messy metrics)? Or can PETSc do this for me??? My goal is to be integrate
> this system of PDEs for a spherical domain of arbitrary radius.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
>



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