Send mail to: mgnet@cs.yale.edu for the digests mgnet-requests@cs.yale.edu for comments or help Anonymous ftp repository: casper.cs.yale.edu (128.36.12.1) World Wide Web: http://na.cs.yale.edu/mgnet/www/mgnet.html Today's editor: Craig Douglas (douglas-craig@cs.yale.edu) Volume 6, Number 1 (approximately January 31, 1996) Today's topics: If you got this issue twice... Important Date: February 8 Preprint from Jun Zhang Preprint from Craig Douglas 1995 Copper Mountain Proceedings Update MGNet Tutorials Update Some of the new entries in the bibliography ***** You could see your contribution listed here ***** ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 13:52:10 -0500 From: Craig Douglas Subject: If you got this issue twice... If you received this twice, my apologies. When I first tried to send it out, every single message seems to have bounced with "host unknown" as the reason. Obviously, the local name server was not working. There are a lot of you on this list, as my mailbox can attest. ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:32:26 -0500 From: Craig Douglas Subject: Important Date: February 8 February 8: Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods (USA) Early registration due and hotel reservations must be made. Contact cm96@newton.colorado.edu February 8: 9th Domain Decomposition Symposium (Norway) Abstracts due (1-2 pages preferably in LaTeX). Send these to dd9@ii.uib.no ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:35:26 -0500 From: Jun Zhang Subject: Preprint from Jun Zhang Minimal Residual Smoothing in Multi-Level Iterative Method JUN ZHANG Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052, USA ABSTRACT A minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique is employed to accelerate the convergence of the multi-level iterative method by smoothing the residuals of the original iterative sequence. The sequence with smoothed residuals is re-introduced into the multi-level iterative process. The new sequence generated by this acceleration procedure converges much faster than both the sequence generated by the original multi-level method and the sequence generated by MRS technique. The cost of this acceleration scheme is independent of the original operator and in many cases is negligible. The emphasis of this paper is on the practical implementation of MRS acceleration techniques in the multi-level method. The discussions are focused on the two-level method because the acceleration scheme is only applied on the finest level of the multi-level method. Numerical experiments using the proposed MRS acceleration scheme to accelerate both the two-level and multi-level methods are conducted to show the efficiency and the cost-effectiveness of this acceleration scheme. Editor's Note: in mgnet/papers/Zhang/mrs.ps.gz and .../mrs.abs. ------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:42:09 -0500 From: Craig Douglas Subject: Preprint from Craig Douglas Multigrid and Multilevel Methods in Science and Engineering Craig C. Douglas IBM T.J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-0218 USA and Yale University Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 208285 New Haven, CT 06520-8285 USA This is a survey article for the IEEE-Computational Science and Engineering magazine. It is aimed at scientists and engineers who know nothing about multigrid and multilevel methods. It provides some basic information, examples, algorithms (linear, nonlinear, and time dependent PDE's; single and multiple processors), and other sources of information available on the Internet and World Wide Web. ====> If you think your web site should be in <==== ====> this, let me know as soon as possible. <==== Editor's Note: in mgnet/papers/Douglas/cse.ps.gz and .../cse.abs. ------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:20:16 -0500 From: Craig Douglas Subject: 1995 Copper Mountain Proceedings Update For those of you wondering what ever happened to the last proceedings... This is expected to be completed and mailed to the participants and anyone else who requests a copy (more on this later) sometime in the next 2 months. NASA is publishing the proceedings. NASA does not have a real budget for this fiscal year (October-September), so things slowed down considerably (particularly during the US government shutdowns). If you want a printed copy of the proceedings, send e-mail to Duane Melson at melson@cfd356.larc.nasa.gov. He can tell you what is needed to get one. The editing process is nearly done. I have received several updates this month which are in the electronic version of the proceedings. If you have updated the printed version and not the electronic one, please put an update in mgnet/incoming/YourLastName on casper.cs.yale.edu and send me e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:20:16 -0500 From: Craig Douglas Subject: MGNet Tutorials Update The first tutorials are now accessible from the MGNet web pages. An effort will be made to provide a PostScript file of each one put here, but that will not be instantaneous, nor will it always be possible. ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1995 15:52:59 -0500 From: Craig Douglas Subject: Some of the new entries in the bibliography Here are some recent new entries. As usual, please send additions and corrections. [1] R. Arina and C. Canuto, A self adaptive domain decompo- sition for the viscous/inviscid coupling. I. Burgers equation, J. Comput. Phys., 105 (1993), pp. 290-300. [2] L. Badea, On the Schwarz alternating method with more than two subdomains for nonlinear monotone problems, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 28 (1991), pp. 179-204. [3] N. S. Bakhvalov and A. V. Knyazev, A new iterative algo- rithm for solving problems of the fictitious flow method for elliptic equations, Soviet Math. Doklady, 41 (1990), pp. 57- 62. 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