Positive stable block triangular preconditioners for symmetric saddle point problems

  • Authors:
  • Zhi-Hao Cao

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematical Sciences and Laboratory of Mathematics for Nonlinear Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China

  • Venue:
  • Applied Numerical Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss the spectral properties and the computational performance of a positive stable block triangular preconditioner for the solution of the general symmetric saddle point problem. We will show that the eigenvalues of the preconditioned matrix are all real and provide estimates for the interval containing these real eigenvalues. Numerical experiments of a model Stokes problem are presented.