[petsc-users] Modeling a Network with DMPlex?

[Florian Meier]

Hi Shri, Hi Jed,
thank you very much, that helped a lot!
DMCircuit is perfect for my application!

I have finally managed to get a very simple example running after I
realized that comment lines inside of arrays are not allowed for pflow
input format ;-)

I am going to implement a more complex example and will probably come
across something for what I need your help again.

Thanks again,
Florian

On 02/10/2014 08:33 AM, Abhyankar, Shrirang G. wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>  You can use DMPlex directly as Jed suggests or you can use a new DM that
> has been
> added recently to PETSc specifically for circuit/network/graph
> applications. This DM, named DMCircuit, is built on top of
> DMPlex. It is currently in the next branch of PETSc and there is an
> example from a power grid
> application in src/snes/examples/tutorials/pflow.
> 
> Take a look at DMCircuit and let us know if you want to use it. I'll give
> you more information on its usage if you are
> interested.
> 
> Shri
> 
> On 2/10/14 12:35 AM, "Jed Brown" <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
> 
>> Florian Meier <florian.meier at koalo.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I would like to solve a non-linear equation system over a computer
>>> network. This is somewhat similar to FEM. There is a bunch of
>>> equations for each link that includes variables of adjacent links. I
>>> assume there is some support in PETSc for mapping the network to
>>> memory, distribute it and iterate over the adjacent links, but all
>>> examples I could found for DMPlex are so tightly coupled to FEM that I
>>> am not able to separate the relevant parts from the parts that are
>>> only needed for FEM (e.g. continuous elements, discretization).
>>>
>>> Is DMPlex actually the right place to look?
>>
>> You can describe a network having only edges and vertices.  This sounds
>> similar to what Shri does for power networks.  You wouldn't use the FEM
>> interfaces, but the DMPlex primitives still apply.
> 
> You can We've recently added a DM for problems arising from circuit
> applications that may be
> of use to you. The interface is called DMCircuit and is currently in the
> next branch of PETSc.
> There is currently one DMCircuit example coming from a power grid
> application 
> in src/snes/examples/tutorials/circuit/pflow.
> 
> 
>>
>