NDLI: Multi-frontal preconditioners for iterative solvers

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Prakash, V.V.S. Mittra, R.
Copyright Year	2001
Description	Author affiliation: Electromagn. Commun. Lab., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA (Prakash, V.V.S.)
Abstract	The integral equation formulation for the solution of Maxwell's equations leads to a dense system of complex equations. Direct solution of these equations using LU factorization becomes unwieldy as the size of the scatterer increase in terms of wavelength. Iterative solvers, such as those based on Krylov projection methods, offer an alternative approach for solving large system of equations. Most often, the iterative methods are used in combination with some kind of preconditioning to improve the condition number of the system matrix A in order to achieve accelerated convergence. This paper discusses the application of multi-frontal preconditioners (MFPs) for the Krylov projection methods for an efficient solution of the dense system of linear equations. The MFP uses a combined unifrontal/multi-frontal approach to handle arbitrary sparsity patterns and enables a general fill-in reduction. The paper specifically focuses on the efficient solution of complex general systems, without making any assumptions regarding the positive definiteness of the operators. Performances of several popular Krylov projection methods are presented to demonstrate the computational efficiency of the present method, using the MFP.
Starting Page	12
Ending Page	15
File Size	160578
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780370708
DOI	10.1109/APS.2001.960019
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-07-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Transmission line matrix methods Sparse matrices Integral equations Matrix decomposition Maxwell equations Iterative methods Laboratories Electromagnetic scattering Acceleration Computational efficiency
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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