SNESVINEWTONSSLS#
Semi-smooth solver for variational inequalities based on Newton’s method
Options Database Keys#
-snes_type <vinewtonssls,vinewtonrsls> a semi- smooth solver, a reduced space active set method
-snes_vi_monitor - prints the number of active constraints at each iteration.
References#
**** -*** T. S. Munson, F. Facchinei, M. C. Ferris, A. Fischer, and C. Kanzow. The semismooth algorithm for large scale complementarity problems. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 13 (2001).
**** -*** T. S. Munson, and S. Benson. Flexible Complementarity Solvers for Large Scale Applications, Optimization Methods and Software, 21 (2006).
Notes#
This family of algorithm is much like an interior point method.
The reduced space active set solvers SNESVINEWTONRSLS provide an alternative approach that does not result in extremely ill-conditioned linear systems
See Also#
SNESVINEWTONRSLS, SNESVISetVariableBounds(), SNESVISetComputeVariableBounds(), SNESCreate(), SNES, SNESSetType(), SNESVINEWTONRSLS, SNESNEWTONTR, SNESLineSearchSetType(), SNESLineSearchSetPostCheck(), SNESLineSearchSetPreCheck()
Level#
beginner
Location#
Index of all SNES routines
Table of Contents for all manual pages
Index of all manual pages