On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:36:52 +0000
"Garth N. Wells" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2014-01-31 12:32, Corrado Maurini wrote:
> > Le 31 janv. 2014 à 10:46, Anders Logg <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > 
> >> I still don't see the point. How can you not accomplish that by
> >> creating a subclass of NonlinearProblem directly, instead of via an
> >> additional wrapper layer in the form of NonlinearDiscreteProblem?
> > 
> > Yes, I agree you can. But the codes (about 10 lines) would be always
> > the same in 90% of cases.
> > 
> >> It sounds like what you are asking for is an interface in between
> >> NonlinearProblem and NonlinearVariationalProblem, which takes care
> >> of
> >> assembly, but leaves nonlinear solve to the user. By the same
> >> reasoning, we could add yet another interface which takes care of
> >> nonlinear solve but leaves assembly to the user...
> > 
> > Yes this is exactly what of I was asking (and Patrick too, if I
> > correctly understood its message).
> > Let's say a default implementation of NonlinearProblem taking as
> > input something like NonlinearVariationalProblem.
> > 
> > But I understand that it is necessary and sane that you and Garth
> > make design choices to reduce the (too many) ways of formulating
> > problems and the interfaces to maintain.
> > 
> > After all it is really a minor point. It is reasonable that if
> > someone want to work at low level, he stays low-level both in
> > assembling and solving and takes care of copying and pasting its
> > default implementation of NonlinearProblem.
> > 
> > In any case the discussion was useful for me. That led me thinking
> > also that there may be some issues to care of about the way of
> > imposing non-homogenous boundary conditions when using
> > PETScSNESSolver. And the control of NonlinearProblem assembling
> > could be indeed useful in those cases.
> > 
> 
> Could someone register an Issue about the lack of symmetry that came
> up earlier in the thread? 

Done.

Jan

> Some recent changes in SystemAssembler now
> make this an easy fix.
> 
> (Hopefully the last email in this this thread!)
> 
> Garth
> 
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