On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Alexander Grayver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agrayver@gfz-potsdam.de" target="_blank">agrayver@gfz-potsdam.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On <a href="tel:21.08.2012%2018" value="+12108201218" target="_blank">21.08.2012 18</a>:32, Matthew Knepley
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several minutes and 6 GB of memory to factorize it. <br>
This factorization gives residual on the order of 10e-12 and
solution is indeed correct.<br>
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Nevertheless, you're right, there is numerical null-space in
this matrix since it comes <br>
from the discretization of equation that contains curl curl
operator, but practically this <br>
case is not really the worst one. <br>
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<div>This makes no sense whatsoever. How can you LU factor a
matrix that has a null space?</div>
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Matt,<br>
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I'm not sure that I correctly used term numerical null-space in my
post.<br>
The equation is<br>
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curl curl E + kE = -J,<br>
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where k is a function of frequency and conductivity, whenever one of
them becomes small this term gets vanishingly small thus we have
problems since curl curl operator has nontrivial null-space by
definition. So let's say solving this equation for low frequencies
and for models containing air is difficult. <br>
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What kind of magic is inside MUMPS I don't know, but it is able to
handle such cases (e.g. SuperLU and PaStiX fail). <br>
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Also, if it matters, I'm talking about LDLt factorization in MUMPS.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Regards,
Alexander</pre>
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</blockquote></div>You can find Vasseur's talk on this exact subject here:<br><a href="http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/doc/ud_2010/Vasseur_talk.pdf">http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/doc/ud_2010/Vasseur_talk.pdf</a><br><br>
Jack<br>