Dear Wolfgang, I will start writing it soon. I will post a draft in the next few days. Unfortunately, I cannot do it much earlier as I will be in a Spring School the next days.
The first version will include only the required properties for the serial Solvers. As it is my first time writing documentation not only for deal.ii but also in Doxygen, I prefer to check somewhat often if I am using the correct style. BTW, Lecture 23 has been quite helpful in this regard. Regarding the slides, would be nice having them, if you are willing to share! I think the PDFs should suffice, but it is better to be safe than sorry, and extra documentation does not hurt! Bests, Lucas On Saturday, 24 February 2018 21:40:53 UTC+1, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote: > > > Hi Lucas, > > > While I was learning how to use the deal.ii library, one of the my major > > theoretical problems was the plethora of choices in > solvers+preconditioners > > available, as I mentioned in another post. For instance, most of the > Tutorial > > steps > > mention that you can use CG when the tangent matrix is symmetric, but > not often > > does it mention what to do if your matrix is asymmetric. I think having > a short > > summary or a table with the solvers in the documentation could help > solve > > (hehe) this issue. Naturally, something similar could be done regarding > > preconditioners. > > > > I am willing to write such documentation. > > I think that would be fantastic! > > > > As I plan it right now, a lot of of the work would to summarise and > write > > down the contents of Prof. Bangerth's Lectures 34-38 and 41.75. As for > > the algebraic properties required for the solvers to work, I think using > the > > Templates book and PETSc documentation should suffice, but I am always > > open to more sources. > > These are good resources that would be nice to summarize and link to in > the > documentation. > > > > That said all, I can see a few reasons why one would *not* want to have > this > > summary in the documentation, the most important being that it is > possible that > > a beginner could get a "good enough" idea and not look deeper into the > > documentation to something that would be more beneficial to them. > Therefore, > > before starting this side project, I would like to know if the > maintainers > > think it is a good idea to have such summary in the documentation, and > would be > > pleased to hear more thoughts on the issue. > > I think that the main reason we don't have such an overview in the > documentation is that nobody wrote it so far. So if you're willing to do > this, > then that would be great and I'm sure something that the community would > very > much appreciate! > > Would it help you if I sent you the original OpenOffice/LibreOffice slides > I > used for the lectures you mention? The PDFs are of course all online > already. > > Best > Wolfgang > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Wolfgang Bangerth email: bang...@colostate.edu > <javascript:> > www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/ > > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
