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# SNESNRICHARDSON

Richardson nonlinear solver that uses successive substitutions, also sometimes known as Picard iteration.

## Options Database Keys

- -snes_linesearch_type <l2,cp,basic> - Line search type.

- -snes_linesearch_damping <1.0> - Damping for the line search.

## Notes

If no inner nonlinear preconditioner is provided then solves \(F(x) - b = 0 \) using \(x^{n+1} = x^{n} - \lambda (F(x^n) - b) \) where \( \lambda\) is obtained with either `SNESLineSearchSetDamping()`, `-snes_damping` or a line search. If an inner nonlinear preconditioner is provided (either with `-npc_snes_typ`e or `SNESSetNPC()`) then the inner solver is called on the initial solution \(x^n\) and the nonlinear Richardson uses \( x^{n+1} = x^{n} + \lambda d^{n}\) where \(d^{n} = \hat{x}^{n} - x^{n} \) where \(\hat{x}^{n} \) is the solution returned from the inner solver.

The update, especially without inner nonlinear preconditioner, may be ill-scaled. If using the basic linesearch, one may have to scale the update with `-snes_linesearch_damping`

This uses no derivative information provided with `SNESSetJacobian()` thus it will be much slower then Newton’s method obtained with `-snes_type ls`

Only supports left non-linear preconditioning.

## See Also

SNES: Nonlinear Solvers, `SNESCreate()`, `SNES`, `SNESSetType()`, `SNESNEWTONLS`, `SNESNEWTONTR`, `SNESNGMRES`, `SNESQN`, `SNESNCG`, `SNESLineSearchSetDamping()`

## Level

beginner

## Location

src/snes/impls/richardson/snesrichardson.c

Index of all SNES routines
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