matrix free for linear solver

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 11:07:32 CST 2008


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:05 AM, li pan <li76pan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>  If I want to solve a linear equation in matrix free
>  scheme, how is the command line argument? I only know
>  for nonlinear solver it is _snes_mf

What do you mean here? How do you have linear equations without
a matrix? If you mean that you would only like to specify the action
of the operator, you should use MATSHELL.

  Matt

>  thanx
>
>  pan
>
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