Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Jed Brown
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Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
Well, I've worked hard on similar methods, but for incompressible NS equations (pressure-convection preconditioners, Elman et al.). I abandoned temporarily this research, but I was not able to get decent results. However, for Stokes flow it seens to work endeed, but never studied this seriously.

Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Matthew Knepley
1) I believe the Wathen-Elman-Silvester stuff is the best out there of the shelf. I love the review A.C. de Niet and F.W. Wubs Two preconditioners for saddle point problems in fluid flows Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids 2007: 54: 355-377 2) Note in there that Augmented Lagrangian

Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Barry Smith
We are starting to provide this functionality in petsc-dev and it will be in the next release. Barry On Apr 29, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Jed Brown wrote: This issue arose while discussing improved preconditioners for a colleague's libmesh-based ice flow model. Since libmesh is one of

Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Boyce Griffith
Hi, Matt et al. -- Do people ever use standard projection methods as preconditioners for these kinds of problems? I have been playing around with doing this in the context of a staggered grid (MAC) finite difference scheme. It is probably not much of a surprise, but for problems where an

Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Matthew Knepley
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Boyce Griffith griffith at cims.nyu.edu wrote: Hi, Matt et al. -- Do people ever use standard projection methods as preconditioners for these kinds of problems? I have been playing around with doing this in the context of a staggered grid (MAC) finite

Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Boyce Griffith
Matthew Knepley wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Boyce Griffith griffith at cims.nyu.edu wrote: Hi, Matt et al. -- Do people ever use standard projection methods as preconditioners for these kinds of problems? I have been playing around with doing this in the context of a

Preconditioning for saddle point problems

2008-04-29 Thread Matthew Knepley
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Boyce Griffith griffith at cims.nyu.edu wrote: Matthew Knepley wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Boyce Griffith griffith at cims.nyu.edu wrote: Hi, Matt et al. -- Do people ever use standard projection methods as preconditioners for