Melina Freitag

Publications

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Submitted Articles

• M.A. Freitag, P. Kürschner:
  Tuned preconditioners for inexact two-sided inverse and Rayleigh quotient iteration. (link) (2013).
  
• M.A. Freitag, R.W.E Potthast:
  Synergy of inverse problems and data assimilation techniques. (2013).
  
• S.E. Jenkins, C.J. Budd, M.A. Freitag, N.D. Smith:
  The effect of numerical model error on data assimilation. (2013).
  
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  A new approach for calculating the real stability radius. (2012).
  

Articles in Journals

• R.O. Akinola, M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  The computation of Jordan blocks in parameter-dependent matrices.
  to appear in IMA J. Numer. Anal., (2013).
• R.O. Akinola, M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  The calculation of the distance to a nearby defective matrix.
  to appear in Numer. Linear Algebra Appl., (2013).
• D.P. Almond, C.J. Budd, M.A. Freitag, G.W. Hunt, N.J. McCullen, N.D. Smith:
  The Origin of Power-Law Emergent Scaling in Large Binary Networks.
  Phys. A, 392(4): 1004-1027, 2013. (link,arxiv).
• M.A. Freitag, N.K. Nichols, C.J. Budd:
  Resolution of sharp fronts in the presence of model error in variational data assimilation.
  Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 139: 742-757, 2013. DOI:10.1002/qj.2002 (link)
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  A Newton-based method for the calculation of the distance to instability.
  Linear Alg. Appl., 435(12): 3189-3205, 2011.(article)
  
• M.A. Freitag, N.K. Nichols, C.J. Budd:
  Regularization techniques for ill-posed inverse problems in data assimilation.
  Comput. & Fluids, 46(1): 168-173, 2011. (link)
• M.A. Freitag, N.K. Nichols, C.J. Budd:
  L1-regularisation for ill-posed problems in variational data assimilation.
  PAMM, 10(1): 665-668, 2010. (link)
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  Shift-invert Arnoldi's method with preconditioned iterative solves.
  SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 31(3): 942-969, 2009. (link)
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  Rayleigh Quotient iteration and simplified Jacobi-Davidson method with preconditioned iterative solves.
  Linear Alg. Appl., 428(8-9): 2049-2060, 2008. (article)
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  A tuned preconditioner for inexact inverse iteration applied to Hermitian eigenvalue problems.
  IMA J. Numer. Anal., 28(3): 522-551, 2008. (link)
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  Convergence theory for inexact inverse iteration applied to the generalised nonsymmetric eigenproblem.
  Electron. Trans. Numer. Anal., 28: 40-64, 2007. (link)
• M.A. Freitag, K. W. Morton:
  The Preissmann box scheme and its modification for transcritical flows.
  Internat. J. Numer. Methods Engrg., 70(7): 791-811, 2007. (article)
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence:
  Convergence rates for inexact inverse iteration with application to preconditioned iterative solves.
  BIT, 47(1): 27-44, 2007. (link)
• M. Freitag, B. Hofmann:
  Analytical and numerical studies on the influence of multiplication operators for the ill-posedness of inverse problems.
  J. Inverse Ill-Posed Probl., 13(2): 123-148, 2005. (link)

Books

• M. Cullen, M.A. Freitag, S. Kindermann and R. Scheichl (Editors):
  Large Scale Inverse Problems: Computational Methods and Applications in the Earth Sciences.
  To appear in Radon Series on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 13, De Gruyter, Berlin (2013). (De Gruyter Link)
• Melina Freitag:
  The Impact of Multiplication Operators on the Ill-Posedness of Inverse Problems.
  168 pages, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG (2008). (Available online here)

Theses

• M.A. Freitag:
  Inner-outer Iterative Methods for Eigenvalue Problems - Convergence and Preconditioning.
  PhD Thesis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath (2007). (Gzipped PostScript), (PDF)
• M. Freitag:
  On the Influence of Multiplication Operators on the Ill-posedness of Inverse Problems.
  Diplomarbeit, Fakultät für Mathematik, Technische Universität Chemnitz (2004). (Available online here)
• M. Freitag:
  Transcritical flow modelling with the Box Scheme.
  MSc Thesis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath (2003). (Gzipped PostScript), (PDF)

Technical reports

• M. Freitag (joint work with A. Spence)
  The calculation of the distance to instability by the computation of a Jordan block.
  Oberwolfach Report No. 37/2009. (Report)
• M.A. Freitag, A. Spence, E. Vainikko:
  Rayleigh quotient iteration and simplified Jacobi-Davidson with preconditioned iterative solves for generalised eigenvalue problems.
  (2008). (Gzipped PostScript), (PDF).