Re: [petsc-users] Questions about multigrid preconditioner and multigrid level

2019-09-19 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-users
> On Sep 20, 2019, at 12:35 AM, Young Hyun Jo wrote: > > Thanks for the answer. > It's really helpful to understand the PETSc library. > By the way, I just want to ask two more questions not related to the > multigrid. > > 1. Is there a method known as the fastest solver for Poisson's equatio

Re: [petsc-users] Questions about multigrid preconditioner and multigrid level

2019-09-19 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-users
The DMDA structured grid management in PETSc does not provide the needed interpolations for doing non-nested multigrid. The algebraic portions of PETSc's geometric multigrid would work fine for that case if you have your own way to provide the needed interpolation. I'll note that mathematica

Re: [petsc-users] Questions about multigrid preconditioner and multigrid level

2019-09-19 Thread Smith, Barry F. via petsc-users
You didn't indicate "why" you can't use multiple levels with "130 grids", is there some error message? Nor do you mention if you have periodic boundary conditions or are using cell or vertex centered unknowns. All of these things affect when you can coarsen for multigrain or not. Conside