[petsc-users] Local Refinement?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Zhenglun (Alan) Wei <zhenglun.wei at gmail.com
> wrote:

>  Dear All,
>     I hope you're having a nice day.
>     I'm trying to use PETSc to program a Poisson Solver with local
> refinement grid (or adaptive mesh). Is that possible? I checked DMDA
> functions and found DMDASetRefinementFactor. Is this what I need to look
> into? or it is only for overall refinement in Multigrid solver?
>

DMDA is a purely regular grid. You can check out SAMRAI or Chombo or Deal
II for
adaptive grid refinement. All of them can use PETSc.

   Matt


> thanks,
> Alan
>



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