A note on least squares methods

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 83-92

  Carey, G F ^a   Richardson, Jr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

H 1 formulation; Least squares; Preconditioning; Sobolev gradient

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

PRECONDITIONING; SOBOLEV GRADIENT; SOBOLEV PRECONDITIONER;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

GRADIENT METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 32444439545     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.780     Document Type: Article

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