[petsc-users] ML and linear elasticity

[Mark F. Adams]

On Apr 2, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 07:44, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> The block size is used if you don't provide any other information. The preferred approach with petsc-dev is to use MatSetNearNullSpace(). (I'll make sure this is currently working with ML and reply to this message.)
> 
> I pushed ML support for user-provided null spaces to petsc-dev. Call MatSetNearNullSpace() to provide the information. You can use MatNullSpaceCreateRigidBody() if you have nodal coordinates.
> 
> 
> Mark, what is the best way to make PCGAMG use this interface?


It looks like you are adding this to the Mat, so I can check to see if coordinates have been set and if not check the matrix.  This should be easy to do; I'll look at the ML code to clone the API.

One thing to keep in mind is that diagonal scaling breaks the null space (ie, the rigid body modes have to be scaled appropriately).  Who owns the diagonal scaling? If it is Mat then we might want MatSetNearNullSpace to do this, otherwise we should think of a good way to deal with this.  It is very error prone to not do the right thing here, we should at least throw an error.


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