[Getdp] Solver parameters
Michael J. Rivard
rivard at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 23 22:43:32 CEST 2002
Prof. Saad's two books---the other is "Numerical Methods for Large
Eigenvalue Problems"---are available online at
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~saad/books.html . This is good news,
because both books are out of print.
Mike
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.
>
> Christophe
>
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>
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