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] 
> <mailto:[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]
>     <mailto:[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/ 
> <http://lagniappe.icm.jhu.edu/%7Edwang/>
>     >
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