A wirebasket preconditioner for the mortar boundary element method (Q1696371)

A preconditioner of additive Schwarz type for the mortar boundary element method is presented and analyzed. The authors show that a basic splitting consists of separating on each subdomain the degrees of freedom related to its boundary from the inner degrees of freedom. Additionally, they illustrate that the corresponding wirebasket-type space decomposition is stable up to logarithmic terms. Next, standard preconditioners for the hypersingular integral operator on open boundaries are applied for the blocks corresponding to the inner degrees of freedom. Further, simple diagonal preconditioners are shown to be optimal for the boundary and interface parts as well as the Lagrangian multiplier space. The developed techniques work both for quasi-uniform and non-uniform meshes of shape-regular elements. Finally, numerical experiments on triangular and quadrilateral meshes are shown to be in agreement with the theoretical bounds for the condition number as well as for the iteration numbers in the minimal residual method.