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Suggest that users try MUMPS for LU decomposition. #2393

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@jhale jhale commented Oct 5, 2022

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.

@garth-wells garth-wells merged commit 68e56d3 into main Oct 11, 2022
@garth-wells garth-wells deleted the jhale/change-petsc-linearproblem-advice branch October 11, 2022 10:56
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