A fast and memory efficient sparse solver with applications to finite element matrices
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- We introduce a fast solver for sparse matrices arising from the finite element discretization of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). We use a fast direct (but approximate) multifrontal solver as a preconditioner, and use an iterative solver to achieve a desired accuracy. This approach combines the advantages of direct and iterative schemes to arrive at a fast, robust and accurate solver. We will show that this solver is much faster and more memory efficient compared to a conventional direct multifrontal solver. Furthermore, we will demonstrate that the solver is both a faster and more effective preconditioner than other preconditioners such as the incomplete LU (ILU) preconditioner. The solver can be applied to both structured and unstructured meshes in a similar manner. We build on our previous work and utilize the fact that dense frontal and update matrices, in the multifrontal algorithm, can be represented as hierarchically off-diagonal low-rank (HODLR) matrices. Using this idea, we replace all large dense matrix operations in the multifrontal elimination process with O(N) HODLR operations to arrive at a faster and more memory efficient solver.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Aminfar, AmirHossein | |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Mechanical Engineering. | |
| Primary advisor | Darve, Eric | |
| Thesis advisor | Darve, Eric | |
| Thesis advisor | Farhat, Charbel | |
| Thesis advisor | Ying, Lexing | |
| Advisor | Farhat, Charbel | |
| Advisor | Ying, Lexing |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | AmirHossein Aminfar. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by AmirHossein Aminfar
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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