[petsc-users] Creating a 2d geometry by using vector

[Barry Smith]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Alan Wei wrote:

> Dear Barry, 
>     In ex19, the X is a kinda of global vec, while the x is a local vec. Since DAVecGetArray makes the x and X sharing the same actual vector data, the vec X is, actually, a global copy of the vec x, isnt it?

  Not really. If you pass a local (nonparallel) vector to the VecGetArray() the resulting array covers all the entries in the vector.  If you pass a global (parallel) vector then the resulting array only gives you access to the values that are on that one process.

   Barry

> 
> best,
> Alan
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Alan Wei wrote:
> 
> > Dear Barry,
> >     That is really a great idea, and it is something that I want. I've never noticed that the structure in C is so marvelous. However, I have a further question. In that example, a variable x is defined like Field **x, and DAVecGetArray(da,X,&x). I wonder if there is any relationship between da, X and x after using DAVecGetArray. Or it just a prerequisite for using the nice notation of 'x'.
> 
>   The only real relationship is that x looks into the X data structure to allow you to access the data as if it were in simple arrays. In other words the x and X share the same actual vector data.
> 
>    Barry
> 
> 
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >  Alan,
> >
> >   I'm not sure what you are getting at but we commonly use tricks like (see src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex19.c)
> >
> > typedef struct {
> >  PetscScalar u,v,omega,temp;
> > } Field;
> >
> >  Then in this case use a DMDAVecGetArray() to get f and x and then have nice notation like
> >
> >      f[j][i].u     = x[j][i].u;
> >      f[j][i].v     = x[j][i].v;
> >      f[j][i].omega = x[j][i].omega - (x[j][i+1].v - x[j][i].v)*dhx;
> >      f[j][i].temp  = x[j][i].temp;
> >
> > note that this means the values are stored interlaced in the vector.
> >
> >   Barry
> >
> > On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Alan Wei wrote:
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > >     I'm trying to 'draw' a 2-D cylinder in PETSc. It simply restore the x and y coordinate values in two arrays. I wonder if I can use Vec in PETSc to implement it (i.e. defining a vec circle) so that I can call its x or y coordinate by circle.x or circle.y. Is this possible? also, is this a better way than just defining it as two arrays, i.e. x[ ] and y[ ].
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > > Alan
> >
> >
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