Thank you guys for the help.

Dan

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Wolfgang Bangerth
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
>      cell->get_dof_indices (local_dof_indices);
>>
>>     for (unsigned int k=0; k < dofs_per_cell; k++)
>>       prev_coeffs[k] = solution(local_dof_indices[k])**;
>>
>
> This could be combined into a call of the form
>  cell->get_dof_values (solution, prev_coeffs);
> But it's too cumbersome to do this, use the way Markus has suggested.
>
>
>  Would a similar call for the parallel code with the distributed
>> mesh as in step-40 using the processor vector
>>
>> PETScWrappers::MPI::Vector   locally_relevant_solution;
>>
>> and the local to global index
>>
>> std::vector<unsigned int> local_dof_indices (dofs_per_cell);
>>
>> work in a similar manner?  The indexing would be different
>> since we do not have the entire solution on each processor.
>> I was how this might work?
>>
>
> The dof indices you get a are global indices, and you can use these to get
> values out of global (distributed) vectors as long as the corresponding
> elements are stored locally. In the distributed case that means that you
> need to make sure the vector has ghost elements -- see step-40.
>
> As for how to write a nonlinear program in general, take a look at the new
> step-15 that's in the current development sources (which you can find via
> the "subversion" link of the documentation). It shows how one would get to
> the coefficients in your nonlinear matrix most easily.
>
> Best
>  W.
>
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