Can you set up the preconditioner so that you can just use GMRES?

> On Jun 22, 2018, at 4:33 PM, Nishant Nangia <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am solving a saddle point system using a shell preconditioner (which itself 
> uses Krylov solvers, hence the use of FGMRES). I had added the option to 
> re-scale parts of the saddle point system to minimize loss of floating point 
> precision for cases where there are varying orders of magnitude in the 
> system/unknowns.
> 
> I wanted to show that re-scaling can alleviate large differences between the 
> preconditioned and unpreconditioned residual norms. However, I notice that 
> FGMRES only supports right preconditioning, meaning the preconditioned 
> residual is never formed/used (I think).
> 
> Is there any way to form the preconditioned norm for FGMRES, or does it just 
> not make sense in the context of right-preconditioned iterative solvers? Is 
> there any way to show that the re-scaling is improving the solver convergence 
> (i.e. showing that it ensures that the true and relative residual are close 
> to each other)?
> 
> Nishant Nangia
> Northwestern University
> Ph.D. Candidate | Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
> Tech L386

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