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# SNESPATCH

Solve a nonlinear problem or apply a nonlinear smoother by composing together many nonlinear solvers on (often overlapping) patches [BKST15]

## References

[BKST15]

Peter R. Brune, Matthew G. Knepley, Barry F. Smith, and Xuemin Tu. Composing scalable nonlinear algebraic solvers. SIAM Review, 57(4):535–565, 2015. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/papers/P2010-0112.pdf. URL: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/papers/P2010-0112.pdf, doi:10.1137/130936725.

## See Also

SNES: Nonlinear Solvers, `SNESFAS`, `SNESCreate()`, `SNESSetType()`, `SNESType`, `SNES`, `PCPATCH`

## Level

intermediate

## Location

src/snes/impls/patch/snespatch.c

Index of all SNES routines
Table of Contents for all manual pages
Index of all manual pages