[petsc-users] Question about preconditioner

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 2:43 AM user_gong Kim <ksi2443 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
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> There are some questions about some preconditioners.
>
> The questions are from problem Au=b. The global matrix A has zero value
> diagonal terms.
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> 1.     Which preconditioner is preferred for matrix A which has zero
> value in diagonal terms?
> The most frequently used basic 2 preconditioners are jacobi and SOR (gauss
> seidel). As people knows both methods should have non zero diagonal terms.
> Although the improved method is applied in PETSc, jacobi can also solve the
> case with zero diagonal term, but I ask because I know that it is not
> recommended.
>
> 2.     Second question is about running code with the two command options
> below in a single process.
> 1st command : -ksp_type gmres -pc_type bjacobi -sub_pc_type jacobi
> 2nd command : -ksp_type gmres -pc_type hpddm -sub_pc_type jacobi
> When domain decomposition methods such as bjacobi or hpddm are parallel,
> the global matrix is divided for each process. As far as I know, running it
> in a single process should eventually produce the same result if the sub pc
> type is the same. However, in the second option, ksp did not converge.
> In this case, I wonder how to analyze the situation.
> How can I monitor and see the difference between the two?
>
> Pierre is correct. I will just note that the best way to use PETSc is
generally to find the preconditioner you need
by looking in literature for what has been successful for other people, and
then reproducing it in PETSc, which
should be easy.

  Thanks,

     Matt


>
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> Thanks,
>
> Hyung Kim
>


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