An efficient approach for multifrontal algorithm to solve non-positive-definite finite element equations in electromagnetic problems

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 95, Issue , 2009, Pages 121-133

  Tian, J ^a   Lv, Z Q ^a   Shi, X W ^a   Xu, L ^a   Wei, F ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPUTATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBLEMS; FINITE ELEMENT EQUATIONS; GENERALIZED MINIMAL RESIDUAL METHODS; MULTIFRONTAL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARALLELIZATIONS; POSITIVE DEFINITE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 70349540638     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER09070207     Document Type: Article

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