Panel Clustering Techniques and Hierarchical Matrices for BEM and FEM

Wolfgang Hackbusch

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Submission date: 29. Jul. 2003
Pages: 26
published in: Encyclopedia of computational mechanics. Vol 1 : Fundamentals / E. Stein (ed.)
Chichester : Wiley, 2004. - P. 597 - 616 
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Keywords and phrases: panel clustering, fast matrix operations, hierarchical matrices
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Abstract:
The panel clustering method and the hierarchical matrix technique described here are important tools for the efficient treatment of fully populated matrices which arise from boundary element (BEM) problems and elliptic FEM problems.