[petsc-users] Local Refinement?

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Jul 19 16:39:04 CDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Or libmesh or fenics or .... There are many AMR packages.
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