Thank you for posting this.

I was initially figuring I would approximate the variation in x with a
finite difference approximation. This would be much less accurate but
simple. Using analytical derivatives makes sense, though.

Kris

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. (Fed) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have posted an implementation at
>
>   https://gist.github.com/guyer/f29c759fd7f0f01363b8483c7bc644cb
>
> I'm not sure the way that I determine the Jacobian expression is
> completely legitimate, but it seems to work. Please don't hesitate to ask
> any questions (or offer corrections!).
>
>
>
> > On May 11, 2016, at 4:57 PM, Guyer, Jonathan E. Dr. (Fed) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 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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