Domain decomposition methods for eigenvalue problems (Q1567354)

The author proposes several domain decomposition methods to compute the smallest eigenvalue of linear symmetric partial differential operators. The main idea is to determine an appropriate boundary condition at the interface separating two subdomains from the zero of a nonlinear operator. This concept is applied to overlapping and nonoverlapping schemes as well as to domain imbedding algorithms. Some numerical experiments for two-dimensional problems verify the convergence of the proposed algorithms.