We could possibly provide the equivalent of PCFieldSplit for nonlinear 
problems?  These could be accelerated via the various non-linear accelerates or 
even via matrix-free Newton?


   Barry


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> From: Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: Is there any example that allows time-integration provided by 
> users
> Date: December 13, 2012 11:06:29 AM CST
> To: Lulu Liu <lulu.liu at kaust.edu.sa>, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov>
> 
> It sounds like you want to do classical operator splitting (which is 
> notoriously inaccurate). The literature on these methods is rife with 
> special-purpose band-aids that I'd rather not try to support all of in PETSc.
> 
> My preference would be to write your method as an ARKIMEX, with "trivial" 
> implicit part on the "part" of the equation that you wanted to treat 
> explicitly, or if you wanted to solve both implicitly (but decoupled) then do 
> the appropriate incomplete solve. Can you be more specific about what problem 
> you want to solve?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Lulu Liu <lulu.liu at kaust.edu.sa> wrote:
> There is two equations in my system, and I want solve the first one, and then 
> solve the second equation. Is there any example that allows me to solve 
> equations one by one?
>  
>  
> I want to solve nonlinear system on every time level, but it is feasible if I 
> could provide the time discretization schemes by myself. Is there any example 
> about this?
>  
> Thank you!
> 
> -- 
> Best wishes,
> Lulu Liu
> Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
> King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
> Tel??966?0544701599
> 
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