FiPy: A Finite Volume PDE Solver Using PythonMULTIGRID and ADAPTIVE MESHING ¶
This page is to figure out what we have to do to fipy to get multigrid and adaptinve meshing working.
Questions that need answering ¶
- Should we pull in an algebraic multigrid solver before
embarking on a geometric multigrid?
- Is it useful to implement geometric multigrid without
having adaptive griding?
- Have we noticed a trend in code use in the phase field
community?
Review of packages ¶
The first step has to be to figure out which code base to start from. Are they Python wrapped? How would they fit in? Would it require updating Variable, Mesh and Terms in a big way? Can the package work mostly inside our paradigm?
PyTrilinos ¶
http://software.sandia.gov/trilinos/packages/pytrilinos/
Trilinos comes with the ML package that Roman wrapped at one point and so is probably worth looking at.
MG net ¶
Paramesh ¶
http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~olson/paramesh-doc/Users_manual/amr.html http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~olson/paramesh-doc/Users_manual/multigrid.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/paramesh/
The multigrid support is still new. Distributed under the NASA license, like NIST probably. Licence is completly open.
Chombo ¶
http://seesar.lbl.gov/ANAG/chombo/
Not Python.
PyTrilinos ¶
http://software.sandia.gov/trilinos/packages/pytrilinos/index.html
Has mutigrid and python wrappers
Pyro ¶
http://www.ucolick.org/~zingale/pyro/
Gerris ¶
Has multigrid.
PETSc ¶
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/
Don't see any multigrid solvers in Petc.
Other Resources ¶
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