<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Jinquan Zhong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jzhong@scsolutions.com" target="_blank">jzhong@scsolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A’x=b, where A’=[A^-1 U B]=
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<p class="MsoNormal">What does the notation above mean? <u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That means A’ consists A^-1 and B. A’ is a
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">sparse matrix at the order of 2 million. B = sparse matrix at the order of 2 million to be mixed and mingled with A^-1.</span></p>
</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"mingled" is not a very useful term. How about using an actual equation so we can have some clue what you mean.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">What are the dimensions and sparsity of each piece. <u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The dimension of A^-1 is about 225,000. B is about 2 millions.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have an "inverse" floating around, what sort of operator is it the inverse of.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A is a double complex matrix we have generated from a practical application using FEM. </span></p>
</div></blockquote></div>Then there is no way A^{-1} should be stored as a dense matrix.