[petsc-users] fixed point interations

[Jed Brown]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 09:51, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tell people whatever you want. The above is just Newton or "iterative
> refinement" in thousands of NA papers.


Dominik asked for exactly the method frequently called Picard (but call it
whatever you want). Specifically, he requested a method that does a linear
solve. You suggested a method that has no linear solve at all (unless the
user manages it entirely on their own, by putting it into the residual
evaluation).
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