Fast Solution of Linear Systems by Wavelet Transform

  • Park, Chang-Je (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Nuclear Engineering) ;
  • Cho, Nam-Zin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Department of Nuclear Engineering)
  • Published : 1996.05.01

Abstract

We. develop in this study a wavelet transform method to apply to the flux reconstruction problem in reactor analysis. When we reconstruct pinwise heterogeneous flux by iterative methods, a difficulty arises due to the near singularity of the matrix as the mesh size becomes finer. Here we suggest a wavelet transform to tower the spectral radius of the near singular matrix and thus to converge by a standard iterative scheme. We find that the spectral radios becomes smatter than one after the wavelet transform is performed on sample problems.

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