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Foil 36 Comparison of Computational Complexity between Direct and Iterative Methods

From CPS615 Module on Iterative PDE Solvers CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox

Note G here is size of number of grid points in each dimension

One dimension Nx = G Direct time a G (as tridiagonal matrix) Sparse time a G.G2 = G3

Two dimensions Nx = Ny = G Direct time a G2.G2 = G4 (G2xG2 banded matrix - band size G) Sparse time a G2 (one iteration) .G2 (# iterations) = G4

Three dimensions Nx = Ny = Nz = G Direct time a G3.(G2)2 = G7 (G3xG3 banded matrix - band size G2) Sparse time a G3 (one iteration) .G2 (# iterations) =G5

SOR and conjugate gradient will make iterative methods "look better" as number of iterations proportional to G and not G2