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Python tools for solving data-constrained finite element problems
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Consider matrix-free methods for forcing covariance matrix #46

Open edaub opened 3 years ago

edaub commented 3 years ago

We never care about the forcing covariance matrix in isolation, only its action on a vector. Thus, we do not necessarily need to explicitly form it and would only need to implement some version of matrix-vector multiplication. (Looking at the code for the ForcingCovariance class should make this apparent that this is the only operation defined for the class.)