Additive Schwarz methods for elliptic mortar finite element problems (Q1412173)

From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Additive Schwarz methods for elliptic mortar finite element problems
scientific article

    Statements

    Additive Schwarz methods for elliptic mortar finite element problems (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    9 November 2003
    0 references
    The authors consider domain decomposition methods for solving systems of algebraic equations arising after the mortar finite element discretization on nonmatching meshes of second order elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients. Two variants of the addititive nonoverlapping Schwarz method are presented. The first method is an extension of the average Schwarz method developed by \textit{P. E. Bjørstad, M. Dryja} and \textit{E. Vainikko} [Domain Decomp. Meth. in Sci. and Eng., 141--157 (1996; MR 1943457)] for conforming finite elements to the mortar case. The second method is based on an idea proposed by Bjørstad and Dryja about the coarse spaces used. Both methods are very well suited for parallel computations. It is shown that the condition number of the preconditioned system of each method is proportional to the ratio of the mesh sizes and it is independent of the jumps of the coefficients. The results from some numerical experiments, which are presented in the paper, confirm the theoretical results obtained by the authors.
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    domain decomposition
    0 references
    finite element method
    0 references
    elliptic boundary value problems
    0 references
    preconditioning
    0 references
    discontinuous coefficients
    0 references
    additive nonoverlapping Schwarz method
    0 references
    parallel computations
    0 references
    numerical experiments
    0 references
    0 references