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In article <1992Oct28.041326.9273@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, maawg@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Andrew Gill) writes...
>Newsgroups: math.sci.num-analysis
>Subject: Finding Largest Imag Part Complex Eigenvalue
>Distribution: world
>Organization: James Cook University
> 
>Hi.  
> 
>Im solving some hydrodynamic stability problems numerically and wind up

	I too.

>needing to find the complex eigenvalue which has the largest imaginary 
>part, of a possibly complex matrix.
> 
>Currently I am using the QR
>algorithm (IMSL) which solves for all eigenvalues and is kind of time
>consuming (wasting?) when my matrices are around 200 or 300 big. 
> 
>Are there routines which can find just that *one* eigenvalue with the
>largest imaginary part?  I had hoped to stay away from methods requiring

Yes it seems there is one, As Dr K.P Chen fro  Arizona State University
pointed out to me, it seems that the method you are refering to is 
called the Arnoldi scheme, I searched for some references and found
in a siam paper that this method was perfected by some french
people at IBM in Paris.
On the other hand you might wanna try to use some other library than
IMSL, say NAG for instance, then again one has to have the hardware
that goes with it ( CRAY in my case). By the way something interesting
the IMSL scheme you are refering to works extremly well with IMSL version 0.92
but fails in most cases in its more recent version........

>initial guesses at the eigenvalue.  My matrices arent symmetric or
>anything else nice.

Yeah I know it's bitch.

> 
>Thanks for any info
> 
>Andrew Gill
>maawg@manta.jcu.edu.au





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