An assessment of some preconditioning techniques in shell problems

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 897-906

  Benzi, Michele ^a   Kouhia, Reijo ^c   Tůma, Miroslav ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Conjugate gradient; Finite elements; Preconditioning; Shells

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STIFFNESS MATRIX;

PRECONDITIONING TECHNIQUES;

LINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032180742     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0887(1998100)14:10<897::AID-CNM196>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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