# File:GMRESm.f90

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## The GMRES(m) Method

This implements the classic GMRES(m) method for solving the system $A\vec{x}=\vec{b}$ for $\vec{x}$. This implementation minimises the error $\|A\vec{x}-\vec{b}\|$ subject to the additional constraint $\|\vec{x}\|<\delta$. (This constraint may be ignored by supplying $\delta<0$ in the implementation.)

The main advantage of the GMRES method is that it only requires calculations of multiplies by $A$ for a given $\vec{x}$ -- it does not need to know $A$ itself. This means that $A$ need not even be stored, and could correspond to a very complex linear 'action' on $\vec{x}$, e.g. a time integral with initial condition $\vec{x}$. For a given starting vector $\vec{x}_0$, the method seeks solutions for $\vec{x}$ in $\mathrm{span}\{\vec{x}_0,\,A\vec{x}_0,\,A^2\vec{x}_0,...\}$, but uses Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation to improve the suitability of this basis set. The set of orthogonalised vectors is called the Krylov-subspace, and m is the maximum number of vectors stored.

Whereas m is traditionally a small number, e.g. 3 or 4, the added constraint renders restarts difficult. If the constraint is important, then m should be chosen sufficiently large to solve within m iterations.

GMRES is closely related to the Arnoldi method. See the remarks at File:Arnoldi.f on improved suitability via timestepping or exponentiation of the matrix.

## The code

This constraint $\|\vec{x}\|<\delta$ may be ignored by supplying negative 'del'.

In addition to scalar and array variables, the routine needs to be passed

• an external function that calculates dot products,
• an external subroutine that calculates the action of multiplication by $A$,
• an external subroutine that replaces a vector $\vec{x}$ with the solution of $M\vec{x}'=\vec{x}$ for $\vec{x}'$, where $M$ is a preconditioner matrix. This may simply be an empty subroutine if no preconditioner is required, i.e. $M=I$.

The functions above may require auxiliary data in addition to $\vec{x}$ or $\vec{\delta x}$. Place this data in a module and access via 'use mymodule' in the function/subroutine.

## Parallel use

It is NOT necessary to edit this code for parallel (MPI) use:

• let each thread pass its subsection for the vector $\vec{x}$,
• make the dot product function mpi_allreduce the result of the dot product.
• to avoid multiple outputs to the terminal, set info=1 on rank 0 and info=0 for the other ranks.

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