Matt, Do you know if there is any example of solving Navier Stokes using a staggered approach by using a different DM object such as DMPlex?
Thanks, Edson On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Knepley <knep...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Somdeb Bandopadhyay <sb020...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> I want to write a solver for incompressible navier stokes >> using python and I want to use PETsc (particularly dmda & ksp) for this. >> May I know if this type of work is feasible/already done? >> > > How do you plan to discretize your system? DMDA supports only collocation > discretizations, so some sort of penalty for pressure would > have to be employed. > > Thanks, > > Matt > > >> I intend to run my solver in a cluster and so am slightly >> concerned about the performance if I use python with petsc. >> My deepest apologies if this mail of mine caused you any >> inconvenience. >> >> Somdeb >> > > > > -- > 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 >