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  • Matrix group: Boeing
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  • Matrix: Boeing/bcsstk38
  • Description: STIFFNESS MATRIX, AIRPLANE ENGINE COMPONENT
  • download as a MATLAB mat-file, file size: 2 MB. Use UFget(343) or UFget('Boeing/bcsstk38') in MATLAB.
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    Boeing/bcsstk38

    Boeing/bcsstk38 graph

    Matrix properties
    number of rows8,032
    number of columns8,032
    nonzeros355,460
    structural full rank?yes
    structural rank8,032
    # of blocks from dmperm1
    # strongly connected comp.1
    entries not in dmperm blocks0
    explicit zero entries0
    nonzero pattern symmetrysymmetric
    numeric value symmetrysymmetric
    typereal
    structuresymmetric
    Cholesky candidate?yes
    positive definite?yes

    authorR. Grimes
    editorT. Davis
    date1995
    kindstructural problem
    2D/3D problem?yes

    Ordering statistics:AMD METIS
    nnz(chol(P*(A+A'+s*I)*P'))736,620 832,526
    Cholesky flop count1.2e+08 1.4e+08
    nnz(L+U), no partial pivoting1,465,208 1,657,020
    nnz(V) for QR, upper bound nnz(L) for LU1,467,968 1,473,275
    nnz(R) for QR, upper bound nnz(U) for LU3,072,801 2,979,038

    Maintained by Tim Davis, last updated 04-May-2008.
    Matrix pictures by cspy, a MATLAB function in the CSparse package.
    Matrix graphs by Yifan Hu, AT&T Labs Visualization Group.