Research activity
- Krylov subspace and preconditioning methods for the
numerical solution of large linear systems arising from the
discretization of PDEs.
- Waveform Relaxation methods and Krylov subspace
methods for
linear systems of ODEs.
- Splitting methods for the approximation of the matrix
exponential from a Lie algebra to a Lie group.
- Methods based on the use of Lie Group actions for the
numerical approximation of ODEs on manifolds.
List of publications:
Articles in Journals
- (with I. Moret) A Krylov projection method for systems of ODEs,
Appl. Num. Math. 24: 365-378, August 1997.
- Discrete QMR and BCG in the numerical solution od
linear systems of ODEs, J. CAM 91 (1), April 1998.
- (with A.
Iserles) Approximating the matrix exponential from a Lie
algebra to a Lie group, Math. Comp. 69 (2000), 1457-1480.
- A note on the numerical integration of the KdV equation via
isospectral deformations, Journal of Physics A:
Mathematical and General 34 (2001) 2205-2214.
- (with A. Iserles) Methods for the approximation of the matrix
exponential in a Lie-algebraic setting, IMA Journal of
Numerical Analysis, Vol. 21 (2001), pp. 463-488.
- (with A. Iserles and S. P. Nørsett and B. Orel)
Complexity theory for Lie-group solvers, Journal of Complexity, Vol 18, n. 1, 2002.
- (with B. Owren) A class of intrinsic schemes
for orthogonal integration
SIAM
J. Num. Anal. Vol. 40, n. 6, pp. 2069-2084.
- (with B. Owren) Lie group methods for rigid body dynamics and
time integration on manifolds, Comput.
meth. in Appl. Mech. and Eng., Vol 19, n. 3-4, pp 421-438, 2003.
- (with A. Marthinsen and B. Owren) Commutator-free Lie gorup
methods, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume/Issue: vol 19/3, pp 341 - 352.
- (with B. Owren) On the implementation of Lie group methods on the
Stiefel manifold,
Numerical Algorithms, vol. 32 (2003), no. 2-4, pp 163-183.
- (with S. Fiori) Neural Learning by Geometric Integration of
Reduced 'Rigid Body' Equations in J. CAM vol 172 (2004)
247-269.
- Eulerian and Semi-Lagrangian schemes based on commutator free
exponential integrators, CRM Proceedings and Lecture notes, ISSN: 1065-8580, Vol. 39, 2005.
Articles in Conference Proceedings
- (with G. Johannessen and T. Kvamsdal
) Parallelization of a CFD code: the use of Aztec library in the
parallel numerical simulation of Extrusion of Aluminium in
Proceedings of the
Parallel CFD Conference (May 22-25, 2000),
Jenssen et al. editors, North - Holland, pp. 291--298.
- (with T. Kvamsdal) Parallel time solver for the transient Stokes problem In NSCM 17: Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Seminar in Computational Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden, 15th-16th October 2004.
- (with T. Kvamsdal) Parallelism in time for the solution of the time dependent Stokes problem In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel CFD, Gran Canary, Carary Island, Spain 24th-27th May 2004.
- (with N. Saefstoem) A symmetric splitting method for rigid body dynamics, Proceedings of the SIMS 2005 Conference, Trondheim, October 13th-14th, 2005.
- (with N. Saefstoem) A symmetric splitting method for rigid body dynamics, Journal of Modeling Identification and Control (A Norwegian Research bulletin), 2006.
- Semi-Lagrangian methods and new integrators for convection dominated problems Oberwolfach Reports march 2006
- Exponential integrators for convection dominated problems Oberwolfach Reports april 2006
Reports
- (with N. Saefstroem) Efficient time-symmetric simulation of torqued rigid bodies using Jacobi elliptic functions, NTNU Report October 2005, (to appear in Journal of Physics A, special issue on Geometric Integration).
Other manuscripts
- Sulla risoluzione numerica delle equazioni di Navier-Stokes
tramite metodi di Krylov, Quad. Mat. n . 314, Dip. Sci. Mat. Università di Trieste (December 1993).
- A comparison of Krylov subspace methods for systems
of ODEs, Quad. Mat. n. 317, Dip. Sci. Mat. Università di
Trieste. (January 1994)
- Step-size selection in time integration of PDEs,
November 2001. stepsizeS.ps and
stepsizeS.pdf
- Notes on the filtering procedure for spectral element methods,
April 2002. pres.ps
The introduction and bibliography of my PhD thesis "Krylov subspace
methods for linear systems of ODEs" can be found
here.
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