SV: [ODE] Iterative solution

Adam D. Moss aspirin at ntlworld.com
Tue Mar 18 13:00:02 2003


Billy Zelsnack wrote:
>>Russ Smith said:
>>as far as constraint order goes, i'm not convinced it makes any
>>difference (but i've not verified it one way or the other). the
>>general non-blocking SOR iteration to solve A*x=b is:
> 
> I find that a randomization of the contacts before iterating works well.

Ditto.  There are orderings that work brilliantly or awfully for
a given configuration, but unless you know that ordering it's good
to randomize to reduce the chance of getting a real loser.  :(

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