A PARALLEL ROW-ORIENTED SPARSE SOLUTION METHOD FOR FINITE-ELEMENT STRUCTURAL-ANALYSIS

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作者
LAW, KH
MACKAY, DR
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[1] Department of Civil Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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10.1002/nme.1620361704
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
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This paper describes a parallel implementation of LDL(T) factorization on a distributed-memory parallel computer. Specifically, the parallel LDL(T) factorization procedure is based on a row-oriented sparse storage scheme. In addition, a strategy is proposed for the parallel solution of a triangular system of equations. The strategy is to compute the inverses of the dense principal diagonal block submatrices of the factor L, stored in a row-oriented structure. Experimental results for a number of finite element models are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the parallel solution schemes.
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页码:2895 / 2919
页数:25
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