ksp ex29.c B.C.s and Forcing terms.

[Ryan Yan]

Hi Barry,
Thank you very much for the suggestion. I totally agree with you on using
the same scaling for all the points include the Boundary points.

Yan






On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
> On Dec 11, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Ryan Yan wrote:
>
>  Hi Matt,
>> Thank you very much for the reply.  Now, I got the Neumann part. But I am
>> still a bit confused about the Dirichlet part. Please see the following
>> quote.
>>
>> Yan
>>
>>
>> For the Dirichlet B.C.s, I did not understand the coefficients given
>> below. Isn't correct to set the v[0]=Hx*Hy here?
>> if (i==0 || j==0 || i==mx-1 || j==my-1) {
>> if (user->bcType == DIRICHLET) {
>>  v[0] = 2.0*rho*(HxdHy + HydHx);
>>  }
>> }
>>
>> This is the proper scaling.
>>
>> the Dirichlet B.C.s:
>> Which  scaling  do you think is proper, "v[0]=Hx*Hy" or 2.0*rho*(HxdHy +
>> HydHx)?
>> If it is 2.0*rho*(HxdHy + HydHx), can you say a little bit more about why
>> is this one? I only see a factor of Hx*Hy when we set up the  RHS. Did I
>> miss something?
>>
>>    Ryan,
>
>     You can scale the equations for Dirichlet boundary conditions anyway
> you want; you could multiply them by 1,000,000 if you want. The answer in
> exact precision with direct solvers will be the same. The reason we use the
> given scaling is to make the scaling work well with multigrid. If you use a
> different scaling the Dirichlet boundary conditions on the coarser grid
> matrices would have a different scaling then the interior equations and this
> would slow down MG's convergence rate. For toy problems people usually
> eliminate the Dirichlet boundary conditions, then there is no scaling issue
> for multigrid.
>
>
>   Barry
>
>
>
>>  Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
>> experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>>
>
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