Weighted BFBT Preconditioner for Stokes Flow Problems with Highly Heterogeneous Viscosity

DOI10.1137/16M108450XzbMath1392.65039arXiv1607.03936OpenAlexW2497021759MaRDI QIDQ5372629

Omar Ghattas, Georg Stadler, Johann Rudi

Publication date: 27 October 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03936

zbMATH Keywords

Schur complementpreconditioningparallel computingmultigridvariable viscosityStokesscalable algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Preconditioners for iterative methods (65F08)

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Uses Software

• PETSc
• FEniCS
• SyFi
• p4est
• ASPECT
• pTatin3D

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