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- From: hari ramachandran <IBC6HSR@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: ill-posed general linear equation system, inverse problem
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- > -- Yaomin Wang
- > Email: apyw@ibm.rz.tu-claustha
- >
- > I have to solve a ill-posed GENERAL linear equation system
- > out of an inverse analysis with Boundary Element Method (BEM).
- > The order of the matrix varies from 100 to 200. The condition
- > number ranges from 0.10000000D+20 to 0.10000000D+30. All
- > computations must take place in quadruple precision on
- > IBM3090 machine and the solutions are (numerical) exact
- > enough. Computations in double precision have no results.
- >
- > It is difficult for an engineer to start with regularization and/or
- > singular value decomposition (SVD) of an ill-conditioned system.
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- Regards the solution of singular systems, I don't have first hand
- experience, but numerical recipes has a 'black box' SVD routine.
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- hari
- hsr@uclaph.physics.ucla.edu
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