[petsc-users] Tensor product as matrix free method

Jed Brown jed at jedbrown.org
Tue Apr 1 10:10:12 CDT 2014


Mathis Friesdorf <mathisfriesdorf at gmail.com> writes:

> Alright, so your point is that while this construction is in principal
> possible, it will not be efficient. Thanks for clearing this up!

Yes, TAIJ chooses a specific order for simplicity.  A general tensor
library is a big problem that has already gotten a lot of attention, so
we would prefer to use one.  Wrapping as a MatShell is very simple,
though it may be interesting to include a full interface in the library.
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