Florian Meier <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > I would like to solve a non-linear equation system over a computer > network. This is somewhat similar to FEM. There is a bunch of > equations for each link that includes variables of adjacent links. I > assume there is some support in PETSc for mapping the network to > memory, distribute it and iterate over the adjacent links, but all > examples I could found for DMPlex are so tightly coupled to FEM that I > am not able to separate the relevant parts from the parts that are > only needed for FEM (e.g. continuous elements, discretization). > > Is DMPlex actually the right place to look?
You can describe a network having only edges and vertices. This sounds similar to what Shri does for power networks. You wouldn't use the FEM interfaces, but the DMPlex primitives still apply.
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