[petsc-users] High-dimensional DMDA

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   No and it is highly unlikely to appear (the 3d code is already too
> complicated and we tried to write a dimension independent version but that
> failed)
>
>   But note that by using a dof argument > 1 one can handle some "4d"
> problems so long as one does no parallelize in the 4th dimension.


History: We did have a version for arbitrary dimension called ADDA written
by a student of David Keyes, that exists
in the bowels of Git. We are unlikely to replicate it because regular grids
in high dimension never seem like the right
thing to do.

  Thanks,

     Matt


>
>    Barry
>
> > On Oct 17, 2017, at 1:15 PM, Hittinger, Jeffrey A. F. <
> hittinger1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Quick question: is there a version of the DMDA structured grid interface
> that supports dimensions higher than 3?
> >
> > j-
> > -.-- -.-- --..
> > Jeffrey A. F. Hittinger
> > Center for Applied Scientific Computing
> > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> > Office:  (925) 422-0993
> > FAX:     (925) 423-2993
>
>


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