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block preconditioning questions



Is there a robust way to implement the following?

Suppose I have a block diagonal matrix
P = [A 0; 0 Q];
and I know the indices of A and Q in this block matrix.  I now want to apply different preconditioners on the A block and on the Q block.  

One way, that I've had some success with, is to write a PCSHELL, where I split the input and output vectors using index sets and apply the relevant preconditioner on each of these.  However, this hardwires things, and I was wondering if there was another method.


-gideon