The effect of orderings on sparse approximate inverse preconditioners for non-symmetric problems

  • Authors:
  • E. Flórez;M. D. García;L. González;G. Montero

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edif. de Informática y Matemáticas, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Department of Mathematics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edif. de Informática y Matemáticas, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Department of Mathematics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edif. de Informática y Matemáticas, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;Department of Mathematics, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Edif. de Informática y Matemáticas, Campus Universitario de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Engineering Software - Engineering computational technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We experimentally study how reordering techniques affect the rate of convergence of preconditioned Krylov subspace methods for nonsymmetric sparse linear systems, where the preconditioner is a sparse approximate inverse. In addition, we show how the reordering reduces the number of entries in the approximate inverse and thus, the amount of storage and computation required for a given accuracy. These properties are illustrated with several numerical experiments taken from the discretization of PDEs by a finite element method and from a standard matrix collection.