A block solver for large, unsymmetric, sparse, banded matrices with symmetric profiles

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 3279-3295

  Manoj, K G ^a   Bhattacharyya, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Banded; Block solver; Finite element method; Linear equations; Sparse; Unsymmetric matrix

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROBLEM SOLVING;

BLOCK EQUATION SOLVER; BLOCK FACTORIZATION; GAUSS ELIMINATION TECHNIQUE;

LINEAR ALGEBRA;

EID: 0031235731     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970915)40:17<3279::AID-NME212>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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