Iterative Linear Solvers in a 2D Radiation-Hydrodynamics Code: Methods and Performance

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-40

  Baldwin, Chuck ^a   Brown, Peter N ^a   Falgout, Robert ^a   Graziani, Frank ^a   Jones, Jim ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Incomplete factorization; Iterative methods; Multigrid; Radiation diffusion

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FACTORIZATION; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

CHOLESKY; HYDRODYNAMIC PROBLEMS; INCOMPLETE FACTORIZATION; ITERATION COUNT; LINEAR SOLVER; MULTIGRIDS; PROBLEM SIZE; RADIATION DIFFUSIONS; RADIATION HYDRODYNAMICS; SCALED CONJUGATE GRADIENTS;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0002024199     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1999.6290     Document Type: Article

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