Peter,

Just wanted to make sure there wasn't some Sundials-specific option for finite 
difference Jacobians that I was missing; despite reading the manual, it's a 
large package, and it's easy to miss things. If that's the case, I'd like to 
make a feature request for such an option.

Geoff

On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Peter Brune wrote:

> Note that in the code in ts/impls/implicit/sundials it says:
> 
> This uses its own nonlinear solver and krylov method so PETSc SNES and KSP 
> options do not apply...
> 
> - Peter
> 
> On Jun 21, 2012 7:59 AM, "Geoff Oxberry" <goxberry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Running the following example from PETSC 3.3.0-dev (changeset: 
> 23631:0e86ac5e4170)
> 
> /path/to/petsc-dev/src/ts/examples/tutorials/ex8 -problem_type rober -snes_fd 
> -ts_type sundials
> 
> gives the following output
> 
> steps 1000 (0 rejected, 0 SNES fails), ftime 744.845, nonlinits 3739, linits 
> 3739
> WARNING! There are options you set that were not used!
> WARNING! could be spelling mistake, etc!
> Option left: name:-snes_fd no value
> 
> Just to confirm, is it currently impossible to use a finite difference 
> Jacobian matrix in concert with CVODE? If so, could this feature be 
> implemented in a future release? I currently rely on Sundials to integrate 
> stiff systems of ODEs, and for my application, it is impractical to derive an 
> analytical Jacobian matrix. (It is an issue I've discussed both with Jed and 
> Matt on another forum.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Geoff

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