SNESLineSearchType#

String with the name of a PETSc line search method SNESLineSearch. Provides all the linesearches for the nonlinear solvers, SNES, in PETSc.

Synopsis#

typedef const char *SNESLineSearchType;
#define SNESLINESEARCHBT        "bt"
#define SNESLINESEARCHNLEQERR   "nleqerr"
#define SNESLINESEARCHBASIC     "basic"
#define SNESLINESEARCHNONE      "none"
#define SNESLINESEARCHL2        "l2"
#define SNESLINESEARCHCP        "cp"
#define SNESLINESEARCHSHELL     "shell"
#define SNESLINESEARCHNCGLINEAR "ncglinear"

Values#

SNESLINESEARCHBASIC - (or equivalently SNESLINESEARCHNONE) Simple damping line search, defaults to using the full Newton step
SNESLINESEARCHBT - Backtracking line search over the L2 norm of the function
SNESLINESEARCHL2 - Secant line search over the L2 norm of the function
SNESLINESEARCHCP - Critical point secant line search assuming $F(x) = \nabla G(x)$ for some unknown $G(x)$
SNESLINESEARCHNLEQERR - Affine-covariant error-oriented linesearch
SNESLINESEARCHSHELL - User provided SNESLineSearch implementation

Note#

Use SNESLineSearchSetType() or the options database key -snes_linesearch_type to set the specific line search algorithm to use with a given SNES object. Not all SNESType can utilize a line search.

Level#

beginner

Location#

include/petscsnes.h

Index of all SNES routines
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