[petsc-users] using DMDA with python

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Somdeb Bandopadhyay <sb020287 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>             I want to write a solver for incompressible navier stokes
> using python and I want to use PETsc (particularly dmda & ksp) for this.
> May I know if this type of work is feasible/already done?
>

How do you plan to discretize your system? DMDA supports only collocation
discretizations, so some sort of penalty for pressure would
have to be employed.

  Thanks,

     Matt


>             I intend to run my solver in a cluster and so am slightly
> concerned about the performance if I use python with petsc.
>             My deepest apologies if this mail of mine caused you any
> inconvenience.
>
> Somdeb
>



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