[petsc-users] Preconditioner for stokes flow with mixed boundary conditions.

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 2:38 PM Abhinav Singh <abhinavrajendra at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The Stokes flow equations are a 3d version of the equations attached
> (Stokes-Leslie Flow). Only variables/unknowns are v and
> u_xy=0.5(Dx(vy)+Dy(vx).
>

This is not what I have referred to as Stokes flow (Google gave me no
results for Stokes-Leslie flow). The Stokes operator is elliptic, but I
have no idea if
what you have written is. It has fourth order derivatives in it, with mixed
nonlinear terms, so nothing is clear to me. Is there a
coordinate-independent form?
>From what I see in the image, I have no idea what solvers might work. Do
you have any reference where people have solved this before?

  Thanks,

     Matt


> I am trying to solve them iteratively by correcting the pressure to reach
> a steady state. I start with 0 pressure. Currently, I am unable to solve
> the first iteration (periodic in X and Z. V=0 at Y=0 and Dx(vy)+Dy(vx)=g(x)
> at Y=10).
>
> I think the equations might be singular but I am not sure as in my
> experience, the problem is well posed if the solution is known at certain
> boundaries.
>
>
> [image: by default 2021-04-19 at 20.28.28.png]
>
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 15:59, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:37 AM Abhinav Singh <abhinavrajendra at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What does this mean? Stokes means using an incompressibility constraint,
>>>> for which we often introduce a pressure.
>>>
>>> Yes, what I mean is solving the momentum block, say with known pressure.
>>> viscosity is constant however, the momentum equation has both Laplacian and
>>> Gradient terms.
>>>
>>
>> That does not make any sense to me. Can you write the equation?
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>
>>      Matt
>>
>>
>>> You should use a good Laplacian preconditioner, like -pc_type gamg or
>>>> -pc_type ml.
>>>
>>> I tried gamg and it seems to diverge as the solution is NaN. The KSP
>>> residual message is " 0 KSP Residual norm 1.131782747169e+01  ".
>>> When using -pc_type ml, I get Aggregate Warning and then some faulty
>>> address which stops the code.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 12:31, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 6:18 AM Abhinav Singh <
>>>> abhinavrajendra at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to solve for incompressible stokes flow on a particle
>>>>> based discretization. I use a pressure correction technique along with
>>>>> Particle strength exchange like operators.
>>>>>
>>>>> I call Petsc to solve the Stokes Equation without the pressure term.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What does this mean? Stokes means using an incompressibility
>>>> constraint, for which we often introduce a pressure.
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean you are solving only the momentum block? If so, do you have
>>>> a constant viscosity? If so, then this is just the Laplace equation.
>>>> You should use a good Laplacian preconditioner, like -pc_type gamg or
>>>> -pc_type ml.
>>>>
>>>>   Thanks
>>>>
>>>>      Matt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> GMRES usually works great but with dirichlet boundary conditions. When
>>>>> I use a mixed boundary condition in Y, (dirichlet on bottom and Neumann on
>>>>> the top) with periodicity in X,Z. GMRES fails converge when the size of
>>>>> matrix increases. For smaller size (upto 27*27*5), only GMRES works and
>>>>> that too only with the option 'pc_type none'. I was unable to find any
>>>>> preconditioner which worked. Eventually, it also fails for bigger size.
>>>>> UMFPACK works but LU decomposition fails after a certain size and is very
>>>>> slow.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be great if you could suggest a way or a preconditioner which
>>>>> suits this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> Abhinav
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>

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