The Schur Complement Method as a Fast Parallel Solver for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations in Oceanography

Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 497-510

  Rakowsky, Natalja ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Application in oceanography; Parallel elliptic solver; Schur complement method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033441727     PISSN: 10705325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1506(199909)6:6<497::AID-NLA171>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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