Truhar, Ninoslav; Veselić, Krešimir An efficient method for estimating the optimal Dampers’ viscosity for linear vibrating systems using Lyapunov equation. (English) Zbl 1303.70021 SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 31, No. 1, 18-39 (2009). Summary: This paper deals with an efficient algorithm for dampers’ viscosity optimization in mechanical systems. Our algorithm optimizes the trace of the solution of the corresponding Lyapunov equation using an iterative method which calculates a low rank Cholesky factor for the solution of the corresponding Lyapunov equation. We have shown that the new algorithm calculates the trace in \(\mathcal{O}(m)\) flops per iteration, where \(m\) is a dimension of matrices in the Lyapunov equation (our coefficient matrices are treated as dense). Cited in 19 Documents MSC: 70J25 Stability for problems in linear vibration theory 70J50 Systems arising from the discretization of structural vibration problems 49N10 Linear-quadratic optimal control problems Keywords:damped vibration; Lyapunov equation; optimization of viscosities of dampers PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{N. Truhar} and \textit{K. Veselić}, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 31, No. 1, 18--39 (2009; Zbl 1303.70021) Full Text: DOI Link