Hey Barry, I am already using MatZeroRows. I was actually stuck precisely while applying non zero Dirchlet boundary conditions. But to account for non zero value traditionally we subtract the corresponding column with the right hand side vector. If we zero the rows and columns we can only have value zero for solutions at the boundary.
Get Outlook for Android ________________________________ From: Barry Smith <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 11:33:20 PM To: Daralagodu Dattatreya Jois, Sathwik Bharadw Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [petsc-users] Values of a column in a parallel matrix > On Mar 20, 2017, at 6:07 PM, Daralagodu Dattatreya Jois, Sathwik Bharadw > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I am using AIJ matrix to solve Laplace problem in finite element framework. > To apply Neumann boundary conditions I need to obtain values of first and > last few columns and subtract it with the corresponding right hand side > vector. I understand that MatGetColumnVector andMatGetValues are not > collective. Is there any other alternative petsc calls to achieve this in > parallel? Hmm, I think you mean non-zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. In that case the recommended approach is calling MatZeroRows() or if you want to preserve symmetry MatZeroRowsColumns(). There are also MatZeroRowsLocal() and MatZeroRowsColumnsLocal() and a few other variants. Barry > > Thanks, > Sathwik
