Symmetric indefinite preconditioners for FE solution of Biot's consolidation problem

GeoCongress 2006: Geotechnical Engineering in the Information Technology Age

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 188-

  Chen, Xi ^a   Phoon, Kok Kwang ^a,b   Toh, Kim Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ASCE ^*  (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION EQUATIONS; INDEFINITE PRECONDITIONERS; MULTIFRONTAL SOLVER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONSOLIDATION;

EID: 33845709724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40803(187)188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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