Robust and efficient domain decomposition preconditioners for adaptive hp finite element approximations of linear elasticity with and without discontinuous coefficients
✍ Scribed by Andrew C. Bauer; Abani K. Patra
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 860 KB
- Volume
- 59
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-5981
- DOI
- 10.1002/nme.866
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Adaptive finite element methods (FEM) generate linear equation systems that require dynamic and irregular patterns of storage, access, and computation, making their parallelization difficult. Additional difficulties are generated for problems in which the coefficients of the governing partial differential equations have large discontinuities. We describe in this paper the development of a set of iterative substructuring based solvers and domain decomposition preconditioners with an algebraic coarse‐grid component that address these difficulties for adaptive hp approximations of linear elasticity with both homogeneous and inhomogeneous material properties. Our solvers are robust and efficient and place no restrictions on the mesh or partitioning. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.