[petsc-users] Updating TS solution outside PETSc

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 12:34 PM Ellen M. Price <ellen.price at cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> I think I'm still unclear on exactly how this should work. Suppose, in
> my RHS function for TS, I'm processing the grid to compute its time
> derivative and get to an edge. What do I do?
>

The idea here, I think, is that you keeping using your normal stencil. If
you tell
PETSc that the edge is a mirror boundary, it will have automatically put a
value
in the ghost location that will force a 0 spatial derivative.

  Thanks,

    Matt


> If I set the derivative there to zero, the value will never change, but
> it *should* change so that the spatial derivative there is zero.
>
> If I set it to the value it would get if it wasn't an edge, then the
> derivative isn't preserved anymore.
>
> This is where I get stuck.
>
> Ellen
>
>
> On 12/5/19 10:16 AM, Smith, Barry F. wrote:
> >
> >    Are you using cell-centered or vertex centered discretization ( makes
> a slight difference)?
> >
> >    Our model is to use DM_BOUNDARY_MIRROR  DMBoundaryType. This means
> that u_first_real_grid_point - u_its_ghost_point = 0 (since DMGlobalToLocal
> will automatically put into the physical ghost location the appropriate
> mirror values) thus u_n is zero along the edge; zero Neumann  conditions,
> for non-zero Neuman you need to put something in the "local rhs" to
> represent that, I'm not sure it is clear, but think about it in one
> dimension for the non-zero Neumann case.
> >
> >    Bad news  not yet implemented for 3d.
> >
> >    If you are using 3d we should fix this for you (or you fix it and
> make a MR because we should have this support).
> >
> >    If you have a 2d version of your code I would test with 3d your model
> etc and then let us know and request how we can get the 3d mirror written.
> >
> >    Others may have alternative advice for Neumann with DMDA,
> >
> >    Barry
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 5, 2019, at 10:00 AM, Ellen M. Price <
> ellen.price at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi PETSc users,
> >>
> >> I am working with a code that solves a set of PDEs on a rectangular
> >> domain with Neumann boundary conditions. My understanding of
> >> implementing the boundary condition is that I should set the boundary
> >> value to be the value that makes the finite difference derivative go to
> >> zero (or some other prescribed value) on that boundary.
> >>
> >> I was attempting to update the solution from TS using a pre- or
> >> post-step/stage function and TSGetSolution, but this does not appear to
> >> work as expected. What would be the correct way to prescribe the
> >> boundary condition, given that I'm using TSRK for timestepping and a
> >> DMDA for discretization?
> >>
> >> Looking forward to any help!
> >>
> >> Ellen Price
> >
>


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