• DocumentCode
    753007
  • Title

    A Novel Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioning for Large-Scale Edge-Element Analyses

  • Author

    Mifune, Takeshi ; Iwashita, Takeshi ; Shimasaki, Masaaki

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kyoto Univ.
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1481
  • Lastpage
    1484
  • Abstract
    The algebraic multigrid (AMG) method is an efficient preconditioner for large-scale finite element analyses. However, in edge-element analyses, the large null space of the coefficient matrices causes difficulties in applying AMG techniques. Here, we present a new AMG preconditioning for edge-element analyses. Numerical results demonstrate a promising performance for our proposed preconditioner
  • Keywords
    computational electromagnetics; differential equations; finite element analysis; matrix algebra; algebraic multigrid preconditioning; coefficient matrix; finite element analysis; large-scale edge-element analysis; Character generation; Equations; Finite element methods; Iterative methods; Large-scale systems; Linear systems; Magnetic analysis; Magnetostatics; Null space; Vectors; Algebraic multigrid (AMG); edge-elements; finite element method (FEM); preconditioning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9464
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TMAG.2007.891420
  • Filename
    4137781