Decoupling three-dimensional mixed problems using divergence-free finite elements

DOI10.1137/S1064827500375886MaRDI QIDQ2780601zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert Scheichl

Publication date 15 April 2002

Published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/S1064827500375886

zbMATH Keywords

decoupled iterative methoddivergence free elementsmixed finite elementsnumerical resultsNédélec's edge elementspreconditioningRaviart-Thomas-Nédélec elementssaddle pointproblemssecond-order elliptic boundary value problemsspanning trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Numerical computation of matrix norms, conditioning, scaling (65F35) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Review text

The author considers the iterative solution of saddle point problems resulting from the lowest order mixed finite element discretization of second order elliptic boundary value problems on polyhedral domains. The basic idea is to decouple the discrete velocities from the discrete pressures using the construction of a basis for the divergence free Raviart-Thomas-Nédélec elements by means of the curls of Nédélec's edge elements. The construction of the basis uses the concept of spanning trees from graph theory and fundamental results from homology theory. Numerical results indicate a better efficiency of the proposed iterative solver compared to standard block preconditioning techniques.

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