[petsc-users] Local Refinement?

[Ajay Rawat]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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.
>

Dear Jed

Is there any developmental activity going on for doing AMR inside PETSc, at
least for purely regular grid (DMDA). It will be a great addition.


-- 
Ajay Rawat
Kalpakkam, IGCAR

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