Hi guys, Attached is a very simple program in C which uses SNESSetUpdate to switch variables while solving the following nonlinear equation:
In region 1 (x <= 5):
x^3 - 50 = 0
In region 2 (x > 5):
y = x + 3
so solve:
(y - 3)^3 - 50 = 0
The variable switching stops the solution a small distance across the region
boundary so:
if currently in region 1 and x > 5:
y -> 8 + epsilon, region -> 2
if currently in region 2 and x <= 8:
x -> 5 - epsilon, region -> 1
This is very simplified but analogous to what we want to do. It seems to work
ok and has similar convergence to the non-swtiching case (also included).
Obviously this example doesn't change gradients when the variable is switched
though.
Could you guys add the fortran interfaces for SNESSetUpdate (missing), and
SNESSetApplicationContext and SNESGetApplicationContext (if they're missing)
and I will try it out on some more complicated examples.
Thanks very much
John
--
Dr John O'Sullivan
Lecturer
Department of Engineering Science
University of Auckland, New Zealand
email: jp.osullivan at
auckland.ac.nz<https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/petsc-dev>
tel: +64 (0)9 923 85353
________________________________
From: Peter Lichtner [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2015 8:42 a.m.
To: Barry Smith
Cc: John O'Sullivan; [email protected]; Richard Mills
Subject: Re: [petsc-dev] Missing Fortran interfaces
See comments below …Peter
On Jun 16, 2015, at 13:43, Barry Smith
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Jun 12, 2015, at 10:03 PM, Peter Lichtner
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Barry: here is an attempt to explain how variable switching works in pflotran
(we may need to iterate on this if it's not clear). I will consider as an
example the 2-phase, 3-component water-supercritical CO2 system.
Any grid cell (we use finite volume) can exist in one of three possible states:
single-phase pure liquid water (l); single-phase pure supercritical CO2 (g); or
two-phase coexistence of water and supercritical CO2 (2ph).
Each of these states is described by three independent (nonunique) state
variables. One possibility is:
l: (p_l, T, X_CO2^l)
g: (p_g, T, X_CO2^g)
2ph: (p_g, T, s_g)
where p_l,g = liquid or gas pressure, T = temperature, and s_g = volume
fraction of pore space occupied by supercritical CO2.
Where variable switching comes into play is when a grid cell undergoes a phase
change with the following possibilities:
l -> 2ph
g -> 2ph
2ph -> l
2ph -> g
Note that we do not include directly l <-> g.
As a consequence different regions of space have different primary variables
the boundaries of which are changing with time along with the state variables.
Line search is not feasible with the current implementation in petsc.
After a completed time step or Newton iteration, the stability of the solution
in each grid cell must be checked for a change of phase. For example, if the
cell is in a 2 phase state, but the solution gives s_g > 1 or s_g < 1,
Do you mean s_q < 0 or can s_g only be 1?
This was a typo—sorry about that: I meant s_g < 0 or s_g > 1 triggers a phase
change. For a two-phase system the physical values of s_g are: 0 < s_g < 1.
then a phase change occurs from 2ph -> g or 2ph -> l, respectively, and a
change of variables is necessary:
(p_g, T, s_g) -> (p_l, T, X_CO2^l)
or
(p_g, T, s_g) -> (p_g, T, X_CO2^g)
Agree with John here.
what is the formula for these change of variables?
how/when do g and l go to 2p_h ?
Thanks
Barry
…Peter
On Jun 12, 2015, at 18:14, Barry Smith
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
John,
We can provide any Fortran stubs you need but before we do could you please
outline to us (in algebraic notation; not in reference to PETSc code) how you
plan to handle your "variable switching". That is, what is the problem being
solved, what are the constraints, when do you need to switch variables etc?
I would say everyone who has tried to do variable switching in PETSc before has
failed because we (the PETSc developers) did not help them enough and
understand what is needed in the Newton solver. I suspect we need to provide a
bit more functionality in PETSc to make variable switching a success and I'd
like to understand what that is and add it to the PETSc algorithms. Also if you
know of any references that actually explain variable switching in detail, that
would be great, all I've found are vague hand-wavy discussions that leave too
many important details unexplained.
Thanks
Barry
On Jun 12, 2015, at 5:54 PM, John O'Sullivan
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
We're working on changing variables during an SNES solve so that we can handle
phase changes.
I'm looking into using SNESSetUpdate but there doesn't seem to be a fortran
interface. I get an error:
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"_snessetupdate_", referenced from:
_MAIN__ in phaseChange.o
I've looked in the interface files and can't find it either. I tried writing
one myself but things get a bit too complicated to guess...
Can an interface be added please?
Is this the best to do variable switching? If not where would be the right
place and are there Fortran interfaces? We will be changing from Pressure,
Temperature to Pressure, Saturation etc. But for now I'm just working on a
simple example code.
Cheers
John
--
Dr John O'Sullivan
Lecturer
Department of Engineering Science
University of Auckland, New Zealand
email:
jp.osullivan at auckland.ac.nz<http://auckland.ac.nz>
tel: +64 (0)9 923 85353
ex1ajpo.c
Description: ex1ajpo.c
