Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
567802 Advances in Engineering Software 2007 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

Many environmental processes can be modelled as transient convection–diffusion–reaction problems. This is the case, for instance, of the operation of activated-carbon filters. For industrial applications there is a growing demand for 3D simulations, so efficient linear solvers are a major concern. We have compared the numerical performance of two families of incomplete Cholesky factorizations as preconditioners of conjugate gradient iterations: drop-tolerance and prescribed-memory strategies. Numerical examples show that the former are computationally more efficient, but the latter may be preferable due to their predictable memory requirements.

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