Engineering Analysis ENG 3420 Fall 2009 Dan C Marinescu Office HEC 439 B Office hours Tu Th 11 00 12 00 Lecture 15 Last time Discussion of pivoting Tri diagonal system solver Examples Today Symmetric matrices Hermitian matrices Matrix multiplication Non commutative Associative The transpose of a product of two matrices LU Factorization Chapter 10 Cholesky decomposition Next Time Midterm Lecture 15 2 LU Factorization LU factorization involves two steps Decompose the A matrix into a product of a lower triangular matrix L with 1 for each entry on the diagonal and an upper triangular matrix U Substitution to solve for x Gauss elimination can be implemented using LU factorization The forward elimination step of Gauss elimination comprises the bulk of the computational effort LU factorization methods separate the time consuming elimination of the matrix A from the manipulations of the right hand side b Gauss Elimination as LU Factorization To solve A x b first decompose A to get L U x b MATLAB s lu function can be used to generate the L and U matrices L U lu A Step 1 solve L y b y can be found using forward substitution Step 2 solve U x y x can be found using backward substitution In MATLAB L U lu A d L b x U d LU factorization requires the same number of floating point operations flops as for Gauss elimination Advantage once A is decomposed the same L and U can be used for multiple b vectors Cholesky Factorization A symmetric matrix a square matrix A that is equal to its transpose A AT T stands for transpose The Cholesky factorization based on the fact that a symmetric matrix can be decomposed as A U T U The rest of the process is similar to LU decomposition and Gauss elimination except only one matrix U needs to be stored Cholesky factorization with the built in chol command U chol A MATLAB s left division operator examines the system to see which method will most efficiently solve the problem This includes trying banded solvers back and forward substitutions Cholesky factorization for symmetric systems If these do not work and the system is square Gauss elimination with partial pivoting is used
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