TY - EJOU AU - Oliveira, Suely AU - Yang, Fang TI - H-matrix preconditioners for saddle-point systems from meshfree discretization 1 T2 - The International Conference on Computational \& Experimental Engineering and Sciences PY - 2007 VL - 3 IS - 2 SN - 1933-2815 AB - In this paper we describe and compare preconditioners for saddle-point systems obtained from meshfree discretizations, using the concepts of hierarchical (or H-)matrices. Previous work by the authors using this approach did not use H-matrix techniques throughout, as is done here. Comparison shows the method described here to be better than the author's previous method, an AMG method adapted to saddle point systems, and conventional iterative methods such as JOR. KW - Multilevel methods KW - hierarchical matrices KW - saddle-point systems KW - meshfree method KW - algebraic multigrid DO - 10.3970/icces.2007.003.113