Yep - that's exactly what SNESetFunctionDomainError() is for... so you're
in luck!

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Dafang Wang <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Derek,
>
> Thank you for your suggestions. I am doing a "normal" Newton solve with
> SNES. Since my residual vector is prone to explosion, I want to keep
> monitoring it and to interrupt SNES when the residual explodes.
>
> Cheers,
> Dafang
>
>
> On 12/10/2014 11:43 PM, Derek Gaston wrote:
>
> If you're using PETSc and doing a "normal" Newton solve then you can try
> to use SNESSetFunctionDomainError() (
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/SNES/SNESSetFunctionDomainError.html
> ) and then return... and hopefully PETSc will clean up for you.
>
>  However, if you're doing JFNK and that residual evaluation is being done
> for a finite differenced mat-vec then there are issues.  See this thread:
> http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/2014-August/022597.html
>
>  Derek
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Not sure any of the examples show this, but you can use a usual C++
>> try/catch approach. Just be careful an error is thrown consistently across
>> all processors, even if it is identified only on one (or a subset).
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 10, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Dafang Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to exit a nonlinear-system-solving process from the
>> function
>> > "residual_and_jacobian()" or "jacobian()" without terminating the
>> program? For example, I
>> > am dealing with code as follows:
>> >
>> > //Point A.
>> > system.solve();
>> >
>> > Then something bad happens in my "system.residual_and_jacobian()"
>> function, and I want to
>> > return to Point A and proceed.  Does libmesh allow such an action?
>> >
>> > Any suggestions or comments will be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dafang
>> > --
>> > Dafang Wang, Ph.D.
>> > Postdoctoral Fellow
>> > Institute of Computational Medicine
>> > Hackerman Hall, Room 218
>> > Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 21218
>> > http://lagniappe.icm.jhu.edu/~dwang/
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> Hackerman Hall, Room 218
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