Suggest that users try MUMPS for LU decomposition. #2393
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It has been my experience that the default PETSc LU solver can fail for many quite standard problems. This patch keeps the behaviour of using the PETSc defaults for KSP, but proposes in the example that users set
pc_factor_mat_solver_type
to be MUMPS if they switch to LU.