<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 17 Feb 2023, at 8:56 AM, Stefano Zampini <stefano.zampini@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 17, 2023, 10:43 user_gong Kim <<a href="mailto:ksi2443@gmail.com">ksi2443@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I have a question about rank of matrix.</div><div>At the problem </div><div>Au = b, </div><div><br></div><div>In my case, sometimes global matrix A is not full rank.</div><div>In this case, the global matrix A is more likely to be singular, and if it becomes singular, the problem cannot be solved even in the case of the direct solver.</div><div>I haven't solved the problem with an iterative solver yet, but I would like to ask someone who has experienced this kind of problem.<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. If it is not full rank, is there a numerical technique to solve it by catching rows and columns with empty ranks in advance?<br></div><div><br></div><div>2.If anyone has solved it in a different way than the above numerical analysis method, please tell me your experience.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Hyung Kim</div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My experience with this is usually associated to reading a book and find the solution I'm looking for. </div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>On top of that, some exact factorization packages can solve singular systems, unlike what you are stating.</div><div>E.g., MUMPS, together with the option -mat_mumps_icntl_24, see <a href="https://mumps-solver.org/doc/userguide_5.5.1.pdf">https://mumps-solver.org/doc/userguide_5.5.1.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Pierre</div></body></html>