Retrieving the array from the solution in a coupled system

Hi Yaakoub,

Den Sep 27, 2012 kl. 9:30 PM skrev Yaakoub El Khamra:

> New question #209756 on CBC.PDESys:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/cbcpdesys/+question/209756
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>
> Greetings
> Andy Terrel has been helping me with CBC and pointed out something interesting when I work with a system of coupled equations in CBC.
>
> If my PDESys looks like this:
> PDESystem([['Pw', 'Sw']], problem, solver_parameters)
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> retrieving the solution this way:
> problem.pdesystems['Scalar'].Pw_.parent_vector.array()
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> returns the array for Pw and Sw (i.e. the whole system, not just Pw). This makes computing min/max values trickly. Is there a stable/easy/documented way of retrieving the solution in a coupled system?

This is a tricky problem. Using just one processor it is trivial, but otherwise there is no straightforward way of retrieving the subarrays. See, e.g., this thread https://answers.launchpad.net/dolfin/+question/209095

For one processor the dofs are laid out structured and you can retrieve the subarrays easily. You can use

sol = problem.pdesystems['Scalar']
sol.Pw_.get_array_slice(sol.Pw_)

which gives you an array of the Pw_ vector. See split_Function the top of PDESystem.py for how this works.

I can help you if you are using more processors as well, but that takes some more effort:-)

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> Also is there a better way to plot? Right now I use something like this:
> plot(problem.pdesystems['Scalar'].Pw_, interactive=True, title="Pw")

It certainly helps to have a short form for problem.pdesystems['Scalar'] :-) To obtain better plots use VTK. You cannot dump coupled Functions to VTK, so do something like:

f = File("PwSw.pvd")
f << project(sol.Pw_, sol.V["Pw"])

Best regards

Mikael

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> Many thanks in advance
> Regards
> Yaakoub
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Thank you very much Mikael! I will be using single processor for a good while to come, at least 3 months. Would the dumping to a pvd file work in parallel? If so, I am all set for a good while to come.

Regards
Yaakoub

The dumping works in parallel as well. Just not the numpy array extraction.

Mikael

Den Sep 27, 2012 kl. 11:01 PM skrev Yaakoub El Khamra:

> Question #209756 on CBC.PDESys changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/cbcpdesys/+question/209756
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> Yaakoub El Khamra posted a new comment:
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> Thank you very much Mikael! I will be using single processor for a good while to come, at least 3 months. Would the dumping to a pvd file work in parallel? If so, I am all set for a good while to come.
>
> Regards
> Yaakoub
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Perfect, thank you very much sir!