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assembly of large matrices

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  • Subject: [mg53958] assembly of large matrices
  • From: "dkl8" <dkl8 at walla.co.il>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:15:27 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello all ,

I wrote a 3D nonlinear finite element program with Mathematica .

To solve the problem I need to create a large stiffness matrix
(say 50,000x50,000) made by the assembly of all the elements stifnesses
( 24x24 stiffness matrix for each element ) .

The assembly takes a long time .

Does anyone have an idea how to reduce the assembly time ?

Thank you , Doron .

Here is my algorithm :

calcKnew7 := Do[

      Ktot7 = Ktot7old;(* a large zeros or sparse matrix *)

      Do[

        Do[dRoofSub[p] = elemVec[[e, 2, p + 1]], {p, 0, 7}];
        CalcFunc1;(* calculation of the stiffness keq1 of element e *)
        Do[
          ith = (nLGlist[[e, 2, m]] - 1)*3 + 1; jth = (nLGlist[[e, 2,
n]] - 1)*3 + 1;
          Ktot7[[Range[ith, ith + 2], Range[jth, jth + 2]]] +=
          SubMatrix[keq1, {(m - 1)*3 + 1, (n - 1)*3 + 1}, {3, 3}];

          , {m, 1, 8}, {n, 1, 8}];(* the assembly *)
        
        , {e, 1, ne}];
      ];


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