A frugal FETI-DP and BDDC coarse space for heterogeneous problems (Q2228456)

The authors present a frugal coarse space for FETI-DP (Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting-Dual Primal) and BDDC (Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints) that does not require the solution of any local eigenvalue problems. FETI-DP and BDDC equipped with this new coarse space are robust for linear diffusion and linear elasticity tested for a broad variety of coefficient distributions. This is shown numerically by considering many different coefficient distributions, including a realistic steel microstructure. In addition to this, parallel weak scaling results for up to 262144 subdomains and parallel tasks are presented. The superiority of the new coarse space over classic coarse spaces with respect to parallel weak scalability and time-to-solution is confirmed by some numerical tests.