Hello  Wolfgang,

thanks for your message.

May I know if there is any method which can be used for  adjoint 
sensitivity method?

Best regards
Lance
On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 7:29:18 PM UTC+2 Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:

> On 6/22/23 06:35, Lance Zhang wrote:
> > 
> > May I know whether there is any other method to change the matrix with 
> data 
> > type BlockSparseMatrix<double> into a matrix with 
> BlockSparseMatrix<double>?
>
> No. The inverse of a sparse matrix is, in general, not sparse. For all 
> problems of a realistic size, even if you can store a matrix A, you will 
> not 
> be able to store A^{-1}. As a consequence, we never use the inverse of a 
> sparse matrix in deal.II, and there are no functions to compute inverses 
> of 
> sparse matrices.
>
> Best
> W.
>
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