CARP-CG: A robust and efficient parallel solver for linear systems, applied to strongly convection dominated PDEs

Parallel Computing

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 495-515

  Gordon, Dan ^a   Gordon, Rachel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CARP; CARP CG; CGMN; Convection dominated; Elliptic equations; Kaczmarz; Linear systems; Parallel processing; Partial differential equations; Sparse systems

Indexed keywords

CGMN; CONVECTION-DOMINATED; ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; KACZMARZ; PARALLEL PROCESSING; SPARSE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955277000     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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