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DQGMRES: a Direct Quasi-minimal Residual Algorithm Based on Incomplete Orthogonalization

✍ Scribed by Yousef Saad; Kesheng Wu


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
778 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
1070-5325

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✦ Synopsis


We describe a Krylov subspace technique, based on incomplete orthogonalization of the Krylov vectors, which can be considered as a truncated version of GMRES. Unlike GMRES(m), the restarted version of GMRES, the new method does not require restarting. Like GMRES, it does not break down. Numerical experiments show that DQGMRES(k) often performs as well as the restarted GMRES using a subspace of dimension m = 2k. In addition, the algorithm is flexible to variable preconditioning, i.e., it can accommodate variations in the preconditioner at every step. In particular, this feature allows the use of any iterative solver as a right-preconditioner for DQGMRES(k). This inner-outer iterative combination often results in a robust approach for solving indefinite non-Hermitian linear systems.