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Computational complexity and memory usage for multi-frontal direct solvers in structured mesh finite elements

Numerical Analysis 2012-04-10 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

The multi-frontal direct solver is the state-of-the-art algorithm for the direct solution of sparse linear systems. This paper provides computational complexity and memory usage estimates for the application of the multi-frontal direct solver algorithm on linear systems resulting from B-spline-based isogeometric finite elements, where the mesh is a structured grid. Specifically we provide the estimates for systems resulting from Cp1C^{p-1} polynomial B-spline spaces and compare them to those obtained using C0C^0 spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1204.1718,
  title  = {Computational complexity and memory usage for multi-frontal direct solvers in structured mesh finite elements},
  author = {Nathan Collier and David Pardo and Maciej Paszynski and Victor M. Calo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1718},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures

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