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MiS Preprint
71/2003
Panel Clustering Techniques and Hierarchical Matrices for BEM and FEM
Wolfgang Hackbusch
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.
