[petsc-users] Creating PCFieldSplit Preconditioner in source code

[Jed Brown]

Unfortunately, options are currently the only way to avoid the initial
setup. We could add a special setup routine to the PCFieldSplit interface
that you could call, but there are lots of other PCs that you sometimes
want to reconfigure after "partial setup". I've been unhappy with this for
years, but have not found a general and maintainable way to support, and
configuration via options is a better approach most of the time.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Thomas Witkowski <
thomas.witkowski at tu-dresden.de> wrote:

> In the implementation of my Navier-Stokes solver, I initialize the
> PCFieldSplit preconditioner in my source code (thus not on the command
> line) in the following way:
>
>     PCSetType(pc, PCFIELDSPLIT);
>     PCFieldSplitSetType(pc, PC_COMPOSITE_SCHUR);
>     PCFieldSplitSetSchurFactType(**pc, PC_FIELDSPLIT_SCHUR_FACT_FULL)**;
>     ...
>     KSPSetUp(ksp);
>     KSP *subKsp;
>     PetscInt nSubKsp;
>     PCFieldSplitGetSubKSP(pc, &nSubKsp, &subKsp);
>     KSP kspVelocity = subKsp[0];
>     KSP kspSchur = subKsp[1];
>     ...
>
> And then kspVelocity and kspSchur are filled with appropriate options. The
> point is now, that to get the sub solver objects, I have to run KSPSetUp
> before. In this case, the sub solver objects are also initialized with some
> predefined options (block jacobi ILU), which I don't need and what takes
> some time and memory. Is there any other way to get the sub solver objects
> before and to initialize than the outer solver correctly with the inner
> solver I have specified?
>
>
> Thomas
>
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