Excerpt from Diagonal Scalings of the Laplacian as Preconditioners for Other Elliptic Differential OperatorsWe consider the use of diagonal scalings of the Laplacian matrix as preconditioners for matrices arising from other second order self-adjointMoreExcerpt from Diagonal Scalings of the Laplacian as Preconditioners for Other Elliptic Differential OperatorsWe consider the use of diagonal scalings of the Laplacian matrix as preconditioners for matrices arising from other second order self-adjoint elliptic differential operators.
It is proved that if a diffusion operator with a piecewise constant but discontinuous diffusion coefficient is preconditioned by a diagonal scaling of the Laplacian, then, in the limit as the mesh size goes to zero, the optimal diagonal scaling is just the identity. This is in contrast to the case in which the diffusion coefficient is smoothly varying, in which case numerical evidence suggests that the optimal diagonal scaling is approximately equal to the square root of the diagonal of the matrix.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
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