Efficient structured multifrontal factorization for general large sparse matrices

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Xia, Jianlin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General sparse matrix; HSS matrix; Reduced matrix; Sparse rank relaxation; Structured multifrontal method; ULV factorization

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GENERAL SPARSE MATRIX; HIERARCHICALLY SEMISEPARABLE MATRIXES; MATRIX; MULTIFRONTAL METHODS; REDUCED MATRIX; SIMPLE++; SPARSE MATRICES; SPARSE RANK RELAXATION; STRUCTURED MULTIFRONTAL METHOD; ULV FACTORIZATION;

FACTORIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880626890     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: 10957200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/120867032     Document Type: Article

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