[petsc-users] Block Number of Grid; Domain Decomposit ion

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 9:59 AM tang hongwei via petsc-users <
petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Dear Developers,
>       Thanks for your work about PETSc. I am using PETSc (version 3.1) for
> CFD, but I get confused by some problems, hoping you can help me:
>
> 1. Could the block number of grid be more than 1 ? I use pointwise (
> http://www.pointwise.com) to draw grid. For some cases, the block number
> of grid may be more than 1.
>

Are you talking about DMDA? It can only handle purely Cartesian meshes.

We now have:

  - DMStag: Cartesian meshes with staggered discretizations
  - DMComposite: Using multiple DMs at a time (this might be what you want
for multiblock)
  - DMForest: Using p4est for structured, adaptive grids (this can also
handle multiblock)
  - DMPlex: Arbitrary meshes (this can also handle multiblock)


> 2. How PETSc decompose the domain ?
>

Into blocks.


> In the user manual, I notice that PETSc can decompose the domain
> automatically.  However, I don't understand how PETSc distributes
> processors for each sub-domain (How xs, ys, zs, xm, ym, zm get values?)
>

It divides each direction into pieces, and then the partitions are the
tensor products of those pieces.

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Best Regards,
> Hongwei
>
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