[Trilinos-Users] [EXTERNAL] Setting NOX parameters when using Rythmos

[Mike Sussman]

Thanks, Roger, I needed that!  And thanks for the quick response, too.

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:31 -0500, Roger Pawlowski wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> It turns out that our doxygen generator was missing this file so that is 
> why it is not in the documentation.  I have updated the file to 
> correctly catch this and it should start showing up tomorrow in the 
> development version of the web pages.
> 
> The class is defined in the file:
> 
> Trilinos/packages/nox/src-thyra/Thyra_NonlinearSolver_NOX.hpp
> 
> It derives from a Teuchos ParameterListAcceptor class.  So you can set 
> all the nox parameters by just setting a parameter list on the solver 
> object directly.
> 
> A simple example of this would be:
> 
>      Teuchos::RCP<Thyra::NOXNonlinearSolver> nox_solver =  
> Teuchos::rcp(new Thyra::NOXNonlinearSolver);
>      Teuchos::RCP<Teuchos::ParameterList> nox_params = Teuchos::rcp(new 
> Teuchos::ParameterList);
> 
> << set nox params here>>
> 
>      nox_solver->setParameterList(nox_params);
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> On 12/01/2011 04:09 PM, Mike Sussman wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am trying to learn to use Rythmos by studying the "1DFEM" example in
> > the examples subdirectory of package Rythmos.  I have a quick question:
> >
> > I can see how to change parameters for the linear solver and the Rythmos
> > nonlinear solver, but not for NOX.  Here, the nonlinear solver is set up
> > by Thyra::NOXNonlinearSolver, but I cannot find the documentation for
> > that class and I have not successfully guessed how to give it a
> > parameter list for NOX.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> 

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Mike Sussman
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