"Sun, Hui" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello, I'm reading ex19.c from examples under directory snes. The version I'm 
> using is 3.3. In the code, a user defined function NonlinearGS is 
> implemented, and is registered thru the command
> ierr = SNESSetGS(snes, NonlinearGS, (void*)&user);CHKERRQ(ierr);
>
> I'm wondering if this only serves as a preconditioner? Because I read
> from the output that the default ksp solver is gmres. I'm also
> wondering what shall I do if I want to make the user defined
> NonlinearGS the actual solver instead of the preconditioner?

NonlinearGS is primarily used as a smoother in nonlinear multigrid
(FAS).  It is not used by the default configuration.

> From the discussion a few days ago, I knew that by specifying option
> -ksp_type gmres or -ksp_type bcgs, you use gmres or bcgs as your
> solvers, where then can I find a database for the ksp solvers?

  ./ex19 -help | grep -A5 ksp_type

this will output a list of available KSPs.

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