Would the same work for non-structured problems, for instance for power flow 
equations? 

Thx. Domenico Lahaye. 

      From: Matthew Knepley <[email protected]>
 To: Gideon Simpson <[email protected]> 
Cc: petsc-users <[email protected]> 
 Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 5:05 AM
 Subject: Re: [petsc-users] jacobians for multicomponent problems
   
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Gideon Simpson <[email protected]> 
wrote:

Suppose I have a problem for which the field variable has multiple components, 
in this case real and imaginary parts, and I have created a DM with two degrees 
of freedom.  When assembling a Jacobian associated with a nonlinear problem on 
this data, is there any data management accounting for the different components 
that makes this “easier?”

DMDA knows about components so that MatStencil has a .c slot for indices. Is 
that what you mean?
  Thanks,
    Matt

 
-gideon




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