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Preconditioning by incomplete block cyclic reduction

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7076705

Iterative methods for solving linear systems arising from the discretization of elliptic/parabolic partial differential equations require the use of pre-conditioners to gain increased rates of convergence. Preconditioners arising from incomplete factorizations have been shown to be very effective. However, the recursiveness of these methods can offset these gains somewhat on a parallel processor. In this paper, an incomplete factorization based on block cyclic reduction is developed. It is shown that under block diagonal dominance conditions the off-diagonal terms decay quadratically, yielding more effective algorithms.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
7076705
Report Number(s):
UCID-19502; ON: DE82021946
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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