SolverΒΆ

Type:enum
Range:BiCGSTAB, GMRES, QMR
Default:GMRES
Appearance:simple

Selection of the classical iterative solver scheme:

  • GMRES robust solver, but relatively high memory usage especially for many right hand side problems
  • QMR smaller memory footprint, but requires two matrix (preconditioner) calls per iteration, which increases computation time per iteration especially for expensive proconditioners
  • BiCGSTAB similar as QMR but more failure prone than QMR