Schwarz methods for discrete elliptic and parabolic problems with an application to nuclear waste repository modelling (Q2478442)

This article deals with the numerical solution of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) by overlapping Schwarz methods. The authors investigate the efficiency of the Schwarz-type domain decomposition preconditioners for the systems arising from the finite element discretization of the elliptic PDEs and finite element-time discretization of the parabolic PDEs. The results show a good scalability of one-level Schwarz preconditioners for parabolic PDEs with time steps of reasonable size. Also, it is proved that the two-level Schwarz method is necessary for the efficient solution of the discrete elliptic PDEs. Numerical simulations of a simple model problem and a large-scale problem arising in a nuclear waste repository are performed.