Boris,

    We will add this support to the DMShell and its usage from PCMG within a 
few days.

   Barry

> On Mar 11, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Boris Kaus <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 11, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Dave May <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 11 March 2016 at 18:11, anton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi team,
>> 
>> I'm implementing staggered grid in a PETSc-canonical way, trying to build a 
>> custom DM object, attach it to SNES, that should later transfered it further 
>> to KSP and PC.
>> 
>> Yet, the Galerking coarsening for staggered grid is non-symmetric. The 
>> question is how possible is it that DMShellSetCreateRestriction can be 
>> implemented and included in 3.7 release?
>> 
>> It's a little more work than just adding a new method within the DM and a 
>> new APIs for DMCreateRestriction() and DMShellSetCreateRestriction().
>> PCMG needs to be modified to call DMCreateRestriction(). 
>> 
>> Dave is correct. Currently, PCMG only calls DMCreateInterpolation(). We 
>> would need to add a DMCreateRestriction() call.
> The PCMG object already uses a restriction operator that is different from 
> the interpolation parameter if it is specified with PCMGSetRestriction. 
> For consistency, one would expect a similar DMCreateRestriction object, not? 
> I realize that this is not relevant for FEM codes, but for staggered FD it 
> makes quite some difference. 
> 
> Other suggestions on how to best integrate staggered finite differences 
> within the current PETSc framework are ofcourse also highly welcome. 
> Our current thinking was to pack it into a DMSHELL (which has the problem of 
> not having a restriction interface). 
> 
> thanks,
> Boris
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>   Thanks,
>> 
>>     Matt
>>  
>> Please, please.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Anton
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments 
>> is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments 
>> lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
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