[petsc-users] SNES convergence issue

Jed Brown jed at 59A2.org
Mon May 16 09:57:58 CDT 2011


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 16:50, Tian(ICT) <rongtian at ncic.ac.cn> wrote:

> ./pgfem -pc_type none does not work either, leading to negative jacobian of
> element.
>

During finite differencing or in the line search? Perhaps a trust region
would be better for this problem.

What is the output for -mat_view, are all the output the jacobian, or do
> they inlcude preconditioning matrix?
>

It includes all matrices. You can call MatSetOptionsPrefix(B,"jacpre_") and
then run with -jacpre_mat_view to see only that matrix.
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