Efficient High Accuracy Solutions with GMRES(m)

Consideration of an abstract improvement algorithm leads to the following principle, which is similar to that underlying iterative refinement: By making judicious use of relatively few high accuracy computations, high accuracy solutions can be obtained very efficiently by the algorithm. This principle is applied specifically to GMRES(m) here; it can be similarly applied to a number of other “restarted” iterative linear methods as well. Results are given for numerical experiments in solving a discretized linear elliptic boundary value problem and in computing a step of an inexact Newton method using finite differences for a discretized nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem.