A frontal solver for the 21st century

DOI10.1002/cnm.870zbMath1105.65321OpenAlexW2122800799MaRDI QIDQ3423252

Jennifer Scott

Publication date: 20 February 2007

Published in: Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.870

zbMATH Keywords

finite elementsnumerical examplespackagelarge sparse linear systemsout-of-coreFortran 95frontal methodautomatic element orderinghybrid multilevel spectral algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for sparse matrices (65F50) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion (65F05) Packaged methods for numerical algorithms (65Y15)

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Uses Software

• HSL
• BLAS

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