Emory University Spectral Analysis of a Block-triangular Preconditioner for the Bidomain System in Electrocardiology
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In this paper we analyse in detail the spectral properties of the block-triangular preconditioner for the Bidomain system in non-symmetric form, introduced in [8]. We provide an explicit formula to optimize the preconditioner performance, and we illustrate our findings with some numerical test in three dimensions.
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