Journal: Applied Mathematics (Scientific Research Publishing)
DOI: 10.4236/AM.2014.517263
Open Access: Full text (PDF)
Published: 2014

Authors

C. Petty, B. Poirier

Texas Tech University

Abstract

This paper presents a practical guide for use of the ScalIT software package to perform highly accurate bound rovibrational spectroscopy calculations for triatomic molecules. At its core, ScalIT serves as a massively scalable iterative sparse matrix solver, while assisting modules serve to create rovibrational Hamiltonian matrices and analyze computed energy levels (eigenvalues) and wavefunctions (eigenvectors).

Methods incorporated into the package include:

  • Phase space optimized discrete variable representation (PSO-DVR)
  • Preconditioned inexact spectral transform
  • Optimal separable basis preconditioning

ScalIT has been implemented successfully for a wide range of chemical applications, enabling state-of-the-art calculations across a large number of computational cores in short time.

Notes

  • The definitive user guide for the ScalIT codebase developed during Corey’s PhD
  • Open access — freely available
  • ScalIT was used in essentially all the other papers in this collection