How to find out the type of solver used

Linear Algebra
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Dear all,

the PETSc solver and its line searching option can be activated as shown in the following code snippet. But actually I am wondering what kind of solver is used when activating this option. Is it a Krylov type method as used by the standard Fenics solver for nonlinear problems?

solver.parameters.['nonlinear_solver'] = 'snes' 
solver.parameters.['snes_solver']['line_search'] = 'bt'

Thanks in adavance!

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This is just a guess, since I haven’t used the snes solver, but you can try to add the following to your code

from fenics import *
PETScOptions.set('ksp_view')

But iirc this does not necessarily work for all fenics versions.