[firedrake] Solve multiple variational problems at once

Lawrence Mitchell lawrence.mitchell at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Nov 26 10:28:06 GMT 2014


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On 26/11/14 10:19, Anna Kalogirou wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> How would I solve multiple nonlinear variational problems 
> simultaneously? For example, say that I have three residuals
> 
> F(u1,u2,u3;v) = 0 G(u1,u2,u3;v) = 0 H(u1,u2,u3;v) = 0,
> 
> where v is the test function. I need to solve all three of them 
> together. Any suggestions?

Assuming you have:

W = MixedFunctionSpace(...)

w = Function(W)

u1, u2, u3 = split(w)

F = fn(u1, u2, u3; v)
etc...

Since you're linear in v, can you not just write:


solve(F + G + H == 0, w)

?

Or am I missing something?

Lawrence

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