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Old   August 5, 2012, 15:21
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Dear colleagues,

I have a few questions concerning using ILU(0) for preconditioning the GMRES solver.

As far as I know, ILU(0) decomposes my original system matrix A into

A=L*U+R

where L and R are lower and upper triangular matrices with the same non-zero pattern as my sparse matrix A.

The original linear system

A *x = b

is then preconditioned as

A_new * x = b_new

where A_new=inv(U)*inv(L)*A and b_new = inv(U)*inv(L)*b. The new linear system is solved using GMRES.

My questions are

1) Do I need to explicitly invert L and U? If yes, how do I invert these sparse matrix? Wouldn't the non-zero pattern be destroyed then?

2) In matlab gmres code, one calls it with gmres(... A,..., L,U,...), i.e., only L and U are needed. Then how does matlab invert them, if ever?

3) Anyone has experience on using LASPACK's ILU preconditioned GMRES? Looks like it's ILU is only implemented for symmetric matrix.

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Shenren
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No, you never invert them. Since they are lower/upper matrices, you can solve using forward/backward substitution.
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No, you never invert them. Since they are lower/upper matrices, you can solve using forward/backward substitution.

Thank you Praveen!
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