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### Best choice of solver for a large sparse symmetric (but not positive definite) system

I am presently working on solving very large symmetric (but not positive definite) systems, generated by some certain algorithms. These matrices have a nice block sparsity which can be used for ...
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### What method to solve a sparse complex symmetric (non-Hermitian) system?

I have a sparse system (about 78% of zero entries) that is complex and symmetric (but not Hermitian). The following figure shows the structure of the problem. The off-diagonal blocks are incidence ...
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### What is a robust, iterative solver for large 3-d linear-elastic problems?

I'm diving into the fascinating world of finite element analysis and would like to solve a large thermo-mechanical problem (only thermal $\rightarrow$ mechanical, no feedback). For the mechanical ...
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### Open Source Linear Algebra Library

I am making a code in C that requires the equivalent of Matlab's '\' command for a linear system of the form AX=B where A is an NxN matrix and X, B are Nx1 vectors- i.e a code that performs X=A\B that ...
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### How to choose a method for solving linear equations

To my knowledge, there are 4 ways to solving a system of linear equations (correct me if there are more): If the system matrix is a full-rank square matrix, you can use Cramer’s Rule; Compute the ...
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After reading the first answer here about how the best way to find the most performant sparse solver is to try almost everything, I began to wonder if there was any past work on libraries or research ...
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### Sparse non-square system of linear equations in exact arithmetic [closed]

What is the best known algorithm for exactly solving a large sparse system of linear equations? The system I'm working on is not symmetric, not positive definite and integer. The only benefit is being ...
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