Suppose that I need to solve a linear system in this form, Ax=b, in many iterations. In each iteration, I get a new matrix A. However, the pattern of the matrix is the same. That is, the indices of the nonzeros in A are the same throughout the iterations, but the values of the nonzeros change throughout the iterations.
I don't want to go from phase 1 to phase 3 every time. Since LU factorization doesn't depend entirely on the values of the nonzeros, can I just run phases 1 and 2 just once and in the iterations run phase 3 for different IA, JA, and A vectors, so that I don't have to factorize every time?