Robust and efficient primal-dual Newton-Krylov solvers for viscous-plastic sea-ice models
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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2022.111802arXiv2204.10822MaRDI QIDQ6397232FDOQ6397232
Georg Stadler, Martin Losch, Y. H. Shih, Carolin Mehlmann
Publication date: 22 April 2022
Abstract: We present a Newton-Krylov solver for a viscous-plastic sea-ice model. This constitutive relation is commonly used in climate models to describe the material properties of sea ice. Due to the strong nonlinearity introduced by the material law in the momentum equation, the development of fast, robust and scalable solvers is still a substantial challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel primal-dual Newton linearization for the implicitly-in-time discretized momentum equation. Compared to existing methods, it converges faster and more robustly with respect to mesh refinement, and thus enables numerically converged sea-ice simulations at high resolutions. Combined with an algebraic multigrid-preconditioned Krylov method for the linearized systems, which contain strongly varying coefficients, the resulting solver scales well and can be used in parallel. We present experiments for two challenging test problems and study solver performance for problems with up to 8.4 million spatial unknowns.
Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems (65Nxx) Computer aspects of numerical algorithms (65Yxx) Geophysics (86Axx)
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