A survey on direct solvers for Galerkin methods

In this paper we describe the history, performance, and design concepts of direct solvers for algebraic systems resulting from Galerkin discretizations of partial differential equations. Popular direct solver implementations of Gaussian elimination (also known as LU factorization) are introduced and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pardo, D., Paszynski, M., Collier, N., Alvarez, J., Dalcin, L., Calo, Victor
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62810