# SNESDefaultComputeJacobianColor

Computes the Jacobian using finite differences and coloring to exploit matrix sparsity.

### Synopsis

    #include "petscmat.h"
    #include "petscsnes.h"
    PetscErrorCode PETSCSNES_DLLEXPORT SNESDefaultComputeJacobianColor(SNES snes,Vec x1,Mat *J,Mat *B,MatStructure *flag,void *ctx)

Collective on SNES

### Input Parameters

| snes | - nonlinear solver object
| x1 | - location at which to evaluate Jacobian
| ctx | - coloring context, where ctx must have type MatFDColoring, as created via MatFDColoringCreate()

### Output Parameters

| J | - Jacobian matrix (not altered in this routine)
| B | - newly computed Jacobian matrix to use with preconditioner (generally the same as J)
| flag | - flag indicating whether the matrix sparsity structure has changed

### Options Database Keys

-mat_fd_coloring_freq <freq> -Activates SNESDefaultComputeJacobianColor()

### Keywords

SNES, finite differences, Jacobian, coloring, sparse

### See Also

SNESSetJacobian(), SNESTestJacobian(), SNESDefaultComputeJacobian()
TSDefaultComputeJacobianColor(), MatFDColoringCreate(), MatFDColoringSetFunction()

Level:intermediate
Location:src/snes/interface/snesj2.c
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### Examples

src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex5.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex5s.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex14.c.html
src/snes/examples/tutorials/ex26.c.html