Dear all, I have coupled PETSc with my computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver for incompressible flows where the most computationally intensive part is a solution of the linear system for pressure - which is singular. A simple call to PETSc solvers resulted in divergence, as expected, but things work when I set the null space for the pressure matrix as demonstrated in src/ksp/ksp/tutorials/ex29.c: MatNullSpace nullspace; ierr = MatNullSpaceCreate(PETSC_COMM_WORLD,PETSC_TRUE,0,0,&nullspace);CHKERRQ(ierr); ierr = MatSetNullSpace(J,nullspace);CHKERRQ(ierr); ierr = MatNullSpaceDestroy(&nullspace);CHKERRQ(ierr); However, the effect of setting the null space as described above, has almost the same effect (convergence history is almost the same) as if when I multiply each diagonal of the system matrix with (1.0 + 1.0e-6), i.e., desingularize the matrix by making it slightly diagonally dominant. I prefer the former solution as the latter one seems a bit like an ad-hoc patch and I am not sure how general it is, but I wonder, from a mathematical point of view, is it the same thing? Any thoughts on that? Cheers, Bojan Niceno