[petsc-users] Disconnected domains and Poisson equation

[Marco Cisternino]

Good morning,
I want to solve the Poisson equation on a 3D domain with 2 non-connected sub-domains.
I am using FGMRES+GAMG and I have no problem if the two sub-domains see a Dirichlet boundary condition each.
On the same domain I would like to solve the Poisson equation imposing periodic boundary condition in one direction and homogenous Neumann boundary conditions in the other two directions. The two sub-domains are symmetric with respect to the separation between them and the operator discretization and the right hand side are symmetric as well. It would be nice to have the same solution in both the sub-domains.
Setting the null space to the constant, the solver converges to a solution having the same gradients in both sub-domains but different values.
Am I doing some wrong with the null space? I'm not setting a block matrix (one block for each sub-domain), should I?
I tested the null space against the matrix using MatNullSpaceTest and the answer is true. Can I do something more to have a symmetric solution as outcome of the solver?
Thank you in advance for any comments and hints.

Best regards,

Marco Cisternino

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