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Volume 12, Issue 4
A Fast Direct Solver for a Class of 3-D Elliptic Partial Differential Equation with Variable Coefficient

Beibei Huang, Bin Tu & Benzhuo Lu

DOI: 10.4208/cicp.101110.061211a

Commun. Comput. Phys., 12 (2012), pp. 1148-1162.

Published online: 2012-12

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We propose a direct solver for the three-dimensional Poisson equation with a variable coefficient, and an algorithm to directly solve the associated sparse linear systems that exploits the sparsity pattern of the coefficient matrix. Introducing some appropriate finite difference operators, we derive a second-order scheme for the solver, and then two suitable high-order compact schemes are also discussed. For a cube containing N nodes, the solver requires O(N3/2log2N) arithmetic operations and O(NlogN) memory to store the necessary information. Its efficiency is illustrated with examples, and the numerical results are analysed.

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We propose a direct solver for the three-dimensional Poisson equation with a variable coefficient, and an algorithm to directly solve the associated sparse linear systems that exploits the sparsity pattern of the coefficient matrix. Introducing some appropriate finite difference operators, we derive a second-order scheme for the solver, and then two suitable high-order compact schemes are also discussed. For a cube containing N nodes, the solver requires O(N3/2log2N) arithmetic operations and O(NlogN) memory to store the necessary information. Its efficiency is illustrated with examples, and the numerical results are analysed.

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We propose a direct solver for the three-dimensional Poisson equation with a variable coefficient, and an algorithm to directly solve the associated sparse linear systems that exploits the sparsity pattern of the coefficient matrix. Introducing some appropriate finite difference operators, we derive a second-order scheme for the solver, and then two suitable high-order compact schemes are also discussed. For a cube containing N nodes, the solver requires O(N3/2log2N) arithmetic operations and O(NlogN) memory to store the necessary information. Its efficiency is illustrated with examples, and the numerical results are analysed.

Beibei Huang, Bin Tu and Benzhuo Lu. (2012). A Fast Direct Solver for a Class of 3-D Elliptic Partial Differential Equation with Variable Coefficient. Communications in Computational Physics. 12 (4). 1148-1162. doi:10.4208/cicp.101110.061211a
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