A fast direct solver for boundary value problems on locally perturbed geometries

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2017.12.013zbMATH Open1380.65451arXiv1706.01414OpenAlexW2622335893MaRDI QIDQ1701079FDOQ1701079

A. Gillman, Yabin Zhang

Publication date: 22 February 2018

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Many applications involve solving several boundary value problems on geometries that are local perturbations of an original geometry. The boundary integral equation for a problem on a locally perturbed geometry can be expressed as a low rank update to the original system. A fast direct solver for the new linear system is presented in this paper. The solution technique utilizes a precomputed fast direct solver for the original geometry to efficiently create the low rank factorization of the update matrix and to accelerate the application of the Sherman-Morrison formula. The method is ideally suited for problems where the local perturbation is the same but its placement on the boundary changes and problems where the local perturbation is a refined discretization on the same geometry. Numerical results illustrate that for fixed local perturbation the method is three times faster than building a new fast direct solver from scratch.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01414





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