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Forum: Main CFD Forum July 18, 2011, 21:45
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Posted By Docfreezzzz
Hector, I'm not aware of a quick way to...

Hector,

I'm not aware of a quick way to compute a determinant of a large sparse matrix. Thats an expensive operation even for small matrices and unusual in FEM of FV methods. Before you go down...
Forum: Main CFD Forum July 9, 2011, 03:29
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Posted By Docfreezzzz
Thank you. I'm glad you found it useful. You...

Thank you. I'm glad you found it useful. You may also want to watch the site CFDengineer.com (http://www.cfdengineer.com) as I am currently in the process of putting up all of my class notes and...
Forum: Main CFD Forum July 8, 2011, 14:58
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Posted By Docfreezzzz
You mentioned you are calculating an inverse......

You mentioned you are calculating an inverse... this is not generally a good idea for the reasons you stated above. It is slow and expensive. Iterative methods (Gauss-Seidel or GMRES) are generally...
Forum: Main CFD Forum July 8, 2011, 14:10
Replies: 12
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Posted By Docfreezzzz
I'm guessing that you are referring to a sparse...

I'm guessing that you are referring to a sparse matrix? If the matrix is dense, you are looking at 40,000*40,000*8 bytes or roughly 13GB for memory requirements. Most machines today have around 2GB...
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