On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Andrew E Slaughter
<andrew.e.slaugh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to multiply two SparseMatrix objects together, in parallel, does
> libMesh have this functionality?
>
> One possible solution is to use the PETSc MatMatMult function, but this
> requires that I use PetscMatrix objects, which I also cannot figure out how
> to do. Can someone indicate how I can specify the ImplicitSystem::matrix
> and a matrix added with ImplicitSystem::add_matrix can be PetscMatrix
> objects.

I guess one question is what are you planning to do with the resulting matrix?

In general it will have different sparsity than either of the two operands.

-- 
John

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