Parallel solutions for large-scale general sparse nonlinear systems of equations

Abstract

In solving application problems, many large-scale nonlinear systems of equations result in sparse Jacobian matrices. Such nonlinear systems are called sparse nonlinear systems. The irregularity of the locations of nonzero elements of a general sparse matrix makes it very difficult to generally map sparse matrix computations to multiprocessors for parallel processing in a well balanced manner. To overcome this difficulty, we define a new storage scheme for general sparse matrices in this paper. With the new storage scheme, we develop parallel algorithms to solve large-scale general sparse systems of equations by interval Newton/Generalized bisection methods which reliably find all numerical solutions within a given domain.