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Direct secant updates of sparse matrix factors

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6255404
Quasi-Newton methods for the solution of large sparse systems of non-linear equations suffer two disadvantages versus quasi-Newton methods for small systems. They require a matrix factorization on each iterate and also need to maintain in storage both the Jacobian approximation and its factors at the same time. Two updating techniques, which are applied directly to the factors of the matrix approximation and which attempt to remove these two disadvantages, are discussed here. A theoretical analysis of local Q-superlinear convergence is presented.
Research Organization:
Stanford Univ., CA (USA). Systems Optimization Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
AT03-76ER72018
OSTI ID:
6255404
Report Number(s):
SOL-84-5; ON: DE85004008
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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