[petsc-users] jacobians for multicomponent problems

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 22:05:00 CDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Gideon Simpson <gideon.simpson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Suppose I have a problem for which the field variable has multiple
> components, in this case real and imaginary parts, and I have created a DM
> with two degrees of freedom.  When assembling a Jacobian associated with a
> nonlinear problem on this data, is there any data management accounting for
> the different components that makes this “easier?”
>

DMDA knows about components so that MatStencil has a .c slot for indices.
Is that what you mean?

  Thanks,

    Matt


> -gideon
>
>


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