Inheritance diagram for AbstractNonlinearSolver:

Public Member Functions
virtual Vec	Solve (PetscErrorCode(pComputeResidual)(SNES, Vec, Vec, void ), PetscErrorCode(pComputeJacobian)(SNES, Vec, Mat , Mat , MatStructure , void ), Vec initialGuess, unsigned fill, void pContext)=0
virtual	~AbstractNonlinearSolver ()

Detailed Description

Abstract Nonlinear equation system solver, dictates that each solver must have a Solve function.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

virtual AbstractNonlinearSolver::~AbstractNonlinearSolver ( ) [inline, virtual]

Destructor.

virtual Vec AbstractNonlinearSolver::Solve	(	PetscErrorCode()(SNES, Vec, Vec, void )	pComputeResidual,
		PetscErrorCode()(SNES, Vec, Mat , Mat , MatStructure , void *)	pComputeJacobian,
		Vec	initialGuess,
		unsigned	fill,
		void *	pContext
	)		`[pure virtual]`

Pure virtual Solve() method.

Parameters:

pComputeResidual	points to the function which computes the residual, it must take arguments SNES (a PETSc nonlinear solver object), Vec (current guess - a vector of the correct size), Vec (a Vec of the correct size in which the residual is returned), void* (a pointer to anything you may need to refer to when calculating the residual)
pComputeJacobian	points to the function which computes the Jacobian, it must take arguments SNES (a PETSc nonlinear solver * object), Mat* (a pointer to the Jacobian matrix) ,Mat* (a pointer to a preconditioner matrix), MatStructure* (points to the PETSc matrix type e.g. AIJ), void* (a pointer to anything you may need to refer to when calculating the residual).
initialGuess	A PETSc Vec of the correct size, containing initial guesses for the nonlinear solver.
pContext	[optional] A pointer to a class that may have to be used in the ComputeResidual and ComputeJacobian functions
fill	the expected maximum number of nonzeros in a row of the Jacobian matrix

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