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SNESVINEWTONSSLS

 Semi-smooth solver for variational inequalities based on Newton's method

Options Database

-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

1. - 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).
2. - T. S. Munson, and S. Benson. Flexible Complementarity Solvers for Large Scale Applications, Optimization Methods and Software, 21 (2006).

See Also

SNESVISetVariableBounds(), SNESVISetComputeVariableBounds(), SNESCreate(), SNES, SNESSetType(), SNESVINEWTONRSLS, SNESNEWTONTR, SNESLineSearchSet(),SNESLineSearchSetPostCheck(), SNESLineSearchSetPreCheck()

Level:beginner
Location:src/snes/impls/vi/ss/viss.c
Index of all SNES routines
Table of Contents for all manual pages
Index of all manual pages