Contents

• Contents
  • Introduction
    • Preconditioners
    • Parallel preconditioners in ParPre
    • Library design
      • Design philosophy
      • MPI and Petsc
      • Language
      • Availability
• Setup and context
  • Program structure
    • Example program structure
    • Common Setup
    • Preconditioner Application
  • Interface to user data structures
    • Interface to Petsc data structures
    • Vector conversion
    • Matrix conversion
• The Preconditioners
  • Additive Schwarz
    • General auxiliaries
    • Specific auxiliaries
    • Example of the Additive Schwarz method
  • Multiplicative Schwarz
    • General auxiliaries
    • Specific auxiliaries
    • Example of the Multiplicative Schwarz method
  • Generalised Block SSOR
    • General auxiliaries
    • Specific auxiliaries
    • Example of the Generalised Block SSOR method
  • Schur system Domain Decomposition
    • General auxiliaries
    • Specific auxiliaries
    • Example of the Schur system Domain Decomposition method
  • Algebraic Multilevel
    • General auxiliaries
    • Specific auxiliaries
    • Example of the Algebraic Multilevel method
  • Auxiliary functions
    • Local Solves
    • Subdomain sequence
  • Multilevel method parameters and auxiliary functions
    • Multilevel fill strategy
    • Multilevel coarse grid selection strategy
    • Multilevel methods: smoothers
• Appendices
  • Use of the command line options database
  • Relationship to Petsc
    • Petsc installation
  • Installation
    • Setup for library creation
    • Setup for user programs
  • Revision history of this manual
    • Version 2.0.17
      • Revision 1
    • Version 2.0.21
      • Revision 1
    • Version 2.0.22
• References