[petsc-users] How to construct Jacobian for multicomponent problem ?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Christophe Ortiz <
christophe.ortiz at ciemat.es> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Please apologize if this question has already been raised in previous
> posts.
>
> I am developing a code in fortran 90 to solve a 1D multicomponent problem.
> For instance, something like
>
> u_t = u_xx + R(u,v)
> v_t = v_xx + R(u,v)
>
> I have already implemented this for one component (u) and using DMDA. So
> far no problem. It works fine.
>
> Now I am trying to implement several components per node. Following
> example ex22f.F, for the residual function I would have for node i (1D)
>
> F(1,i) = ....
> F(2,i) = ....
>
> Now, I am not quite sure to understand how to construct the Jacobian when
> there are various components. In this case, how is the vector in PETSc ?
>

The Jacobian is a matrix, and the rows are ordered in the same way as in
the residual function. The columns are the same as the rows.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> Is it a long vector like (u0, u1, ..., umx-1 , v0, v1, ..., vmx-1) ?
> Or is it (u0, v0, u1, v1, u2, v2, ....., umx-1, vmx-1) ?
>
> I don't understand the order of the components of the Jacobian and how to
> fill the matrix in that case.
>
> For instance, for the first row of the Jacobian, should I calculate
> dFu0/du0, dFu0/dFu1, ...., dFu0/dumx-1, dFu0/dv0, dFu0/dv1.....
>
> or
>
> dFu0/du0, dFu0/dv0, dFu0/du1, dFu0/dv1, ....
>
> And then, which subroutine should I use to fill in the Matrix ? Simply
> MatSetValues ?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Christophe
>



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