NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent Class Reference

Calculates the steepest descent direction. More...

#include <NOX_Direction_SteepestDescent.H>

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Public Types
	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.
enum	ScalingType { TwoNorm, QuadMin, FunctionTwoNorm, None }
	Scaling types. More...
Public Member Functions
	SteepestDescent (const Teuchos::RCP< NOX::GlobalData > &gd, Teuchos::ParameterList &params)
	Constructor.
	~SteepestDescent ()
	Destructor.
bool	reset (const Teuchos::RCP< NOX::GlobalData > &gd, Teuchos::ParameterList &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.
virtual bool	compute (NOX::Abstract::Vector &dir, NOX::Abstract::Group &grp, const NOX::Solver::LineSearchBased &solver)
	Same as compute(NOX::Abstract::Vector&, NOX::Abstract::Group&, const NOX::Solver::Generic&).

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Detailed Description

Calculates the steepest descent direction.

Calculates the direction

This is the (scaled) gradient of the function . The valued of depends on the choice of "Scaling Type" below.

Parameters

"Direction":

• "Method" = "Steepest Descent"

"Direction"/"Steepest Descent":

• "Scaling Type" can be either of:
  • "2-Norm" - [default]

  • "Quadratic Model Min" -

  • "F 2-Norm" -

  • "None" - No scaling

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Member Enumeration Documentation

enum NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent::ScalingType

Scaling types.

Enumerator:

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.

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Member Function Documentation

bool NOX::Direction::SteepestDescent::compute	(	NOX::Abstract::Vector &	dir,
		NOX::Abstract::Group &	grp,
		const NOX::Solver::LineSearchBased &	solver
	)			[virtual]

Same as compute(NOX::Abstract::Vector&, NOX::Abstract::Group&, const NOX::Solver::Generic&).

Enables direct support for line search based solvers for the purpose of efficiency since the LineSearchBased object has a getStep() function that some directions require.

If it is not redefined in the derived class, it will just call the compute with the NOX::Solver::Generic argument.

Reimplemented from NOX::Direction::Generic.

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.

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

• NOX_Direction_SteepestDescent.H
• NOX_Direction_SteepestDescent.C

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