Some Generalizations and Modifications of Iterative Methods for Solving Large Sparse Symmetric Indefinite Linear Systems

We discuss a variety of iterative methods that are based on the Arnoldi process for solving large sparse symmetric indefinite linear systems. We describe the SYMMLQ and SYMMQR methods, as well as generalizations and modifications of them. Then, we cover the Lanczos/MSYMMLQ and Lanczos/MSYMMQR methods, which arise from a double linear system. We present pseudocodes for these algorithms.

A regularized GMRES method for inverse blackbody radiation problem

The inverse blackbody radiation problem is focused on determining temperature distribution of a blackbody from measured total radiated power spectrum. This problem consists of solving a first kind of Fredholm integral equation and many numerical methods have been proposed. In this paper, a regularized GMRES method is presented to solve the linear ill-posed problem caused by the discretization of such an integral equation. This method projects the orignal problem onto a lower dimensional subspaces by the Arnoldi process. Tikhonov regularization combined with GCV criterion is applied to stabilize the numerical iteration process. Three numerical examples indicate the effectiveness of the regularized GMRES method.