A PETSc-based parallel implementation of finite element method for elasticity problems

DOI10.1155/2015/147286MaRDI QIDQ1664766zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jianfei Zhang

Publication date 27 August 2018

Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/147286

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

Review text

Summary: Starting a parallel code from scratch is not a good choice for parallel programming finite element analysis of elasticity problems because we cannot make full use of our existing serial code and the programming work is painful for developers. PETSc provides libraries for various numerical methods that can give us more flexibility in migrating our serial application code to a parallel implementation. We present the approach to parallelize the existing finite element code within the PETSc framework. Our approach permits users to easily implement the formation and solution of linear system arising from finite element discretization of elasticity problem. The main PETSc subroutines are given for the main parallelization step and the corresponding code fragments are listed. Cantilever examples are used to validate the code and test the performance.

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Uses Software

• PETSc
• FEAPpv

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