NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Eigenvalue pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Eigenvalue

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The NASA STRuctural ANalysis (NASTRAN) program is one of the most extensively used engineering applications software in the world. It contains a wealth of matrix operations and numerical solution techniques, and they were used to construct efficient eigenvalue routines. The purpose of this paper is to examine the current eigenvalue routines in NASTRAN and to make efficiency comparisons with a more recent implementation of the Block Lanczos algorithm by Boeing Computer Services (BCS). This eigenvalue routine is now available in the BCS mathematics library as well as in several commercial versions of NASTRAN. In addition, CRAY maintains a modified version of this routine on their network. Several example problems, with a varying number of degrees of freedom, were selected primarily for efficiency bench-marking. Accuracy is not an issue, because they all gave comparable results. The Block Lanczos algorithm was found to be extremely efficient, in particular, for very large size problems

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 9/1/1993
• Year: 1993
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, EIGENVALUES, EIGENVECTORS, FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, VIBRATION MODE, CRAY COMPUTERS, DATA REDUCTION, MATRIX METHODS, NASTRAN, STIFFNESS MATRIX, SUBROUTINES, Tischler, V. A., Venkayya, Vipperla B

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