[petsc-users] solve complex linear system: real or complex formulation

2011-12-10 Thread Hong Zhang
I would definitely use complex precision. All direct sovler packages support complex, superlu, mumps and petsc. Hong On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Jack Poulson wrote: > Xiangdong, > > Nearly all of the time in a serial sparse-direct factorization goes into > performing many different dense

[petsc-users] solve complex linear system: real or complex formulation

2011-12-10 Thread Jack Poulson
Xiangdong, Nearly all of the time in a serial sparse-direct factorization goes into performing many different dense "frontal" factorizations. Efficient implementations of dense LU factorization spend almost all of their time within dense matrix-matrix multiplication, and complex matrix-matrix mult

[petsc-users] solve complex linear system: real or complex formulation

2011-12-10 Thread Xiangdong Liang
Hello everyone, I am solving a complex linear system C x = d, where C= A+ iB (A, B are real), in sparse-direct solver. So far, I use the real formulation by solving the linear system [A, -B; B,A]. The reason we chose this approach is to use the property of that the imaginary part B in our problem