NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent Class Reference

Calculates the steepest descent direction. More...

#include <NOX_Direction_SteepestDescent.H>

Inheritance diagram for NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent:

[legend]Collaboration diagram for NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent:[legend]List of all members.


Public Types
enum	ScalingType { TwoNorm, QuadMin, FunctionTwoNorm, None }
	Scaling types. More...
Public Member Functions
	SteepestDescent (const NOX::Utils &u, NOX::Parameter::List &params)
	Constructor.
	~SteepestDescent ()
	Destructor.
bool	reset (NOX::Parameter::List &params)
	Reset direction based on possibly new parameters.
bool	compute (NOX::Abstract::Vector &dir, NOX::Abstract::Group &grp, const NOX::Solver::Generic &solver)
	Compute the direction vector, `dir`, for a specific method given the current group, `grp`.

Detailed Description

Calculates the steepest descent direction.

Calculates the direction

$d = - \gamma \nabla f(x) = -\gamma J(x)^T F(x)$

This is the (scaled) gradient of the function $f(x) = \frac{1}{2} \|F(x)\|^2$ . The valued of $\gamma$ depends on the choice of "Scaling Type" below.

Parameters

"Direction":

"Method" = "Steepest Descent"

"Direction"/"Steepest Descent":

"Scaling Type" can be either of:
- "2-Norm" - $\gamma = \displaystyle\frac{1}{\|d\|_2}$ [default]
- "Quadratic Model Min" - $\gamma = \displaystyle\frac{\|d\|_2^2}{d^T J^T J d}$
- "F 2-Norm" - $\gamma = \displaystyle\frac{1}{\|F(x)\|_2}$
- "None" - No scaling

Member Enumeration Documentation

enum NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent::ScalingType

Scaling types.

Enumeration values:

TwoNorm Scale by the 2-norm of the gradient.

QuadMin Scale by the step that minimizes the 1-D quadratic.

FunctionTwoNorm Scale by the 2-norm of F.

None No scaling at all.

Member Function Documentation

bool NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent::compute ( NOX::Abstract::Vector & dir,

NOX::Abstract::Group & grp,

const NOX::Solver::Generic & solver

) [virtual]

Compute the direction vector, dir, for a specific method given the current group, grp.
The grp is not const so that we can compute the F vector, the Jacobian matrix, the Newton vector, and so on.
Const access to the solver is used for getting additional information such as the past solution, the iteration number, and so on.
Implements NOX::Direction::Generic.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

NOX_Direction_SteepestDescent.H
NOX_Direction_SteepestDescent.C

Generated on Thu Sep 18 12:43:31 2008 for NOX by

1.3.9.1

NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent Class Reference

Public Types

Public Member Functions

Detailed Description

Member Enumeration Documentation

Member Function Documentation