> On Oct 3, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Justin Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I am just saying the poission problem as an example since that is one of the 
> simpler PDEs out there and already exists.

  Sometimes an example for the wrong approach is worse than no example. Can you 
suggest a simple example where Discontinuous Galerkin makes good sense instead 
of when it may not make sense?

   Barry

> 
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Justin Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there, or will there be, support for implementing Discontinuous Galerkin 
> formulations within the DMPlex framework? I think it would be nice to have 
> something such as the SIPG formulation for the poisson problem in SNES ex12.c
> 
> We will have a trial DG in PETSc shortly. However, I don't think DG methods 
> make much sense for elliptic
> problems. Why would I use it there?
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>     Matt
>  
> Thanks,
> Justin
> -- 
> 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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