[Getdp] Solver parameters

[Michael J. Rivard]

See my questions below.

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 22:33, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> Michael J. Rivard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can anyone point me to any references that can help me understand what
> > all of the solver parameters mean? My current level of computational
> > linear algebra is limited to LU factoring and singular value
> > decomposition as explained in Numerical Recipes (ISBN 0-521-30811-9).
> > 
> 
> A good reference is
> 
> @book{saad-book-96,
>    author =	 "Y. Saad",
>    title =	 "Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems",
>    publisher =	 PWS,
>    year =	 1996
> }
> 
> To use LU factoring, define "Matrix_Format 2" and "Algorithm 
> 11" in the solver parameters.

And default values for all other parameters? Would the resulting
algorithm be direct or iterative?

> 
> Christophe
> 
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> Christophe Geuzaine
> 
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