I'm not sure I have anything posted publicly. I will put together a minimal 
example.

> On May 11, 2016, at 12:42 PM, Daniel Wheeler <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kris,
> 
> FiPy doesn't have an automated way to do Newton iterations. You can
> always construct your own Newton iteration scheme using the terms and
> equations as you would ordinarily, but then you have to do the
> variational derivatives and the coupling by hand. This also assumes
> that you are familiar with the Newton method. You can query an
> equation for its residual which then needs to be added to the Newton
> version of the equation. I think that means that each equation
> requires two implementations, the regular and the Newton.
> 
> Regarding examples of using FiPy with Newton iterations, I don't
> believe that we have any examples in the source code although I do
> know that some people have used it in this way including Jon Guyer. He
> may have examples in Github somewhere that would help you get started,
> but I'll let him point you to them.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Kris Kuhlman
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am interested in trying to use newton iterations, rather than simply
>> fixed-point iterations, to speed up the convergence of the non-linear
>> iterations in my fipy problem.
>> 
>> I have found this mention of a term useful for newton iterations,
>> 
>> http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/fipy/fipy/generated/fipy.terms.html#module-fipy.terms.residualTerm
>> 
>> and I see this mention of an example using newton iterations
>> 
>> https://github.com/usnistgov/fipy/wiki/ScharfetterGummel
>> 
>> but I don't see the actual code it is talking about. Is there an example
>> available somewhere?
>> 
>> Kris
>> 
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