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AILU for Helmholtz Problems A New Preconditioner Based on the Analytic Parabolic Factorization
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Domain decomposition based -LU preconditioning
Numer Math, 2009
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Circulant block-factorization preconditioners for elliptic problems
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AILU for Helmholtz problems: a new preconditioner based on an analytic factorization
Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series I - Mathematics, 2000
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