Preconditioning for finite element methods with strain smoothing

DOI10.1016/J.CAMWA.2022.11.018arXiv2109.12525MaRDI QIDQ6378596FDOQ6378596

Publication date: 26 September 2021

Abstract: Strain smoothing methods such as the smoothed finite element methods (S-FEMs) and the strain-smoothed element~(SSE) method have successfully improved the performance of finite elements, and there have been numerous applications of them in finite element analysis. For the sake of efficient applications to large-scale problems, it is important to develop a mathematically and numerically well-elaborated iterative solver for the strain smoothing methods. In this paper, inspired by the spectral properties of the strain smoothing methods, we propose efficient ways of preconditioning for the methods. First, we analyze the spectrums of the stiffness matrices of the edge-based S-FEM and the SSE method. Then, we propose an improved two-level additive Schwarz preconditioner for the strain smoothing methods by modifying local solvers appropriately. For the sake of convenience of implementation, an alternative form of the preconditioner is also proposed by defining the coarse-scale operation in terms of the standard FEM. We verify our theoretical results through numerical experiments.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N55) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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