[petsc-users] BoomerAMG Hypre options

[sthavishtha bhopalam]

I am solving the isothermal form of the Navier-Korteweg system of equations
- it's mixed hyperbolic-elliptic in nature.
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Regards

Sthavishtha Bhopalam Rajakumar






On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:37 PM Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:37 PM sthavishtha bhopalam <
> sthavishthabr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello PETSc users
>>
>> I am trying to experiment with Hypre's BoomerAMG preconditioner which
>> continually yields the error message "Linear solve did not converge due to
>> DIVERGED_DTOL iterations 1". I would appreciate if someone can suggest some
>> ways I could get BoomerAMG to yield converged results - the attached output
>> shows a snippet of the error message. *Command Line options I used for
>> BoomerAMG* : *-pc_type hypre -pc_hypre_type boomeramg
>> -pchypreboomeramgtol 1.0e-3 -pchypreboomeramgstrongthreshold 0.25 -ksp_type
>> richardson -pc_hypre_boomeramg_max_iter 6 -snes_rtol 1.0e-3 -ksp_rtol
>> 1.0e-3 -ksp_view -snes_view -ksp_monitor -snes_monitor -ksp_max_it 100
>> -ksp_converged_reason -snes_converged_reason*
>>
>> I also tried using *-ksp_type gmres*, different values of
>> *-pc_hypre_boomeramg_max_iter*, *-pchypreboomeramgstrongthreshold*,
>> *-ksp_initial_guess_nonzero* but all yielded the same error message.
>>
>> However, the direct solver converges as required - the attached output
>> shows a snippet of the norms from the SNES and KSP.
>> *Command Line options I used for the direct solver* : *-ksp_type gmres
>> -pc_type lu -pc_factor_shift_type nonzero -pc_factor_mat_solver_type mumps
>> -snes_converged_reason -ksp_converged_reason -ksp_rtol 1e-3 -snes_rtol 1e-3
>> -ksp_monitor -snes_monitor*
>>
>> There is no particular reason for using the AMG here, but I just wanted
>> to familiarize with it's options to see which of them need to be
>> particularly tuned to yield converged and correct results.
>>
>
> Hypre is only going to work for a very specific set of systems. What are
> you solving?
>
>   Thanks,
>
>      Matt
>
>
>> Thanks
>> -------------------------------------------
>> Regards
>>
>> Sthavishtha
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
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> experiments lead.
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>
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