Very cool! 

Is there a paper you can point me to that discusses the foundations? 

-Manav

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:37 PM, Paul T. Bauman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Manav Bhatia <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Aha!  Thanks for sharing this information. 
> 
> Are there any restrictions placed on the mesh type for this? 
> Structured/Unstructured? 
> 
> Totally unstructured. (libMesh doesn't have any true structured 
> representation after all. :) )
>  
> What about distribution of dofs? Like subdomain variables, etc.
> 
> This should all be fine. The main restriction is/will be that you cannot 
> coarsen beyond the coarsest mesh you start with. So, the typical strategy 
> will be to refine from your coarsest grid to generate the mesh hierarchy 
> (uniform or adaptively refine). Part of this funding is also interacting with 
> geometry, (but that will be over the next couple of years) so that you can 
> start very coarse and then refine and respect the geometry.
>  
> 
> -Manav
> 
>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Paul T. Bauman <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Manav Bhatia <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> This is unrelated:  is there any activity concerning multigrid 
>> preconditioners within libMesh? I can certainly use Algebraic MG from PETSC, 
>> but what about geometric MG?
>> 
>> Yes, we have a project going on this. We're debugging the pre-alpha version 
>> and will be migrating into libMesh and generalizing (beyond H1 conforming 
>> elements) hopefully very soon. We will make a formal announcement on the 
>> lists once it's more "beta" to help shake out the interface for the users. 
>> It is being hooked into PETSc's DM infrastructure, so PETSc will be required.
> 
> 

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