[petsc-users] jacobians for multicomponent problems

Gideon Simpson gideon.simpson at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 22:30:13 CDT 2015


Yes, is there and example for this?

-gideon

> On Jun 23, 2015, at 11:05 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?”
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> DMDA knows about components so that MatStencil has a .c slot for indices. Is that what you mean?
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>   Thanks,
> 
>     Matt
>  
>> -gideon
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