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Fast Chaotic Artificial Time Integration

In: The Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy (CFL) Condition

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  • Uri Ascher

    (University of British Columbia, Department of Computer Science)

  • Kees van den Doel

    (University of British Columbia, Department of Computer Science)

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Gradient descent methods for large positive definite linear and nonlinear algebraic systems arise when integrating a PDE to steady state and when regularizing inverse problems. However, these methods may converge very slowly when utilizing a constant step size, or when employing an exact line search at each step, with the iteration count growing proportionally to the condition number. Faster gradient descent methods must occasionally resort to significantly larger step sizes, which in turn yields a strongly nonmonotone decrease pattern in the residual vector norm. In fact, such faster gradient descent methods generate chaotic dynamical systems for the normalized residual vectors. Very little is required to generate chaos here: simply damping steepest descent by a constant factor close to 1 will do. The fastest practical methods of this family in general appear to be the chaotic, two-step ones. Despite their erratic behavior, these methods may also be used as smoothers, or regularization operators. Our results also highlight the need for better theory for these methods.

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  • Uri Ascher & Kees van den Doel, 2013. "Fast Chaotic Artificial Time Integration," Springer Books, in: Carlos A. de Moura & Carlos S. Kubrusly (ed.), The Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy (CFL) Condition, edition 127, pages 147-155, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-8176-8394-8_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-8394-8_10
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