On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Subramanya Gautam Sadasiva <
ssada...@purdue.edu> wrote:

> Does anybody know where the theory for these line search methods is
> documented?
>

For line search (and optimization-based methods in general), I really like
Nocedal and Wright
http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Optimization-Operations-Financial-Engineering/dp/0387303030/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345560009&sr=8-1&keywords=numerical+optimization


> I also would like to know how to set petsc options from within libmesh
> code.
>

You should be able to set them at the command line. If not, please post an
example since they should work.

HTH,

Paul
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