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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824533803321

Autore

Bebendorf Mario

Titolo

Hierarchical matrices : a means to efficiently solve elliptic boundary value problems / / Mario Bebendorf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Springer, 2008

ISBN

1-281-51279-6

9786611512798

3-540-77147-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in computational science and engineering, , 1439-7358 ; ; 63

Disciplina

515.353

Soggetti

Matrices

Boundary value problems

Differential equations, Elliptic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Low-Rank Matrices and Matrix Partitioning -- Hierarchical Matrices -- Approximation of Discrete Integral Operators -- Application to Finite Element Discretizations.

Sommario/riassunto

Hierarchical matrices are an efficient framework for large-scale fully populated matrices arising, e.g., from the finite element discretization of solution operators of elliptic boundary value problems. In addition to storing such matrices, approximations of the usual matrix operations can be computed with logarithmic-linear complexity, which can be exploited to setup approximate preconditioners in an efficient and convenient way. Besides the algorithmic aspects of hierarchical matrices, the main aim of this book is to present their theoretical background. The book contains the existing approximation theory for elliptic problems including partial differential operators with nonsmooth coefficients. Furthermore, it presents in full detail the adaptive cross approximation method for the efficient treatment of integral operators with non-local kernel functions.The theory is supported by many numerical experiments from real applications.