Multilevel spectral domain decomposition

Highly heterogeneous, anisotropic coefficients, e.g., in the simulation of carbon-Fiber composite components, can lead to extremely challenging finite element systems. Direct solvers for the resulting large and sparse linear systems suffer from severe memory requirements and limited parallel scalabi...

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Main Authors: Bastian, Peter (Author) , Scheichl, Robert (Author) , Seelinger, Linus (Author) , Strehlow, Arne (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: Jun 2023
In: SIAM journal on scientific computing
Year: 2023, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: S1-S26
ISSN:1095-7197
DOI:10.1137/21M1427231
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1427231
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Author Notes:Peter Bastian, Robert Scheichl, Linus Seelinger, and Arne Strehlow
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Summary:Highly heterogeneous, anisotropic coefficients, e.g., in the simulation of carbon-Fiber composite components, can lead to extremely challenging finite element systems. Direct solvers for the resulting large and sparse linear systems suffer from severe memory requirements and limited parallel scalability, while iterative solvers in general lack robustness. Two-level spectral domain decomposition methods can provide such robustness for symmetric positive definite linear systems by using coarse spaces based on independent generalized eigenproblems in the subdomains. Rigorous condition number bounds are independent of mesh size, number of subdomains, and coefficient contrast. However, their parallel scalability is still limited by the fact that (in order to guarantee robustness) the coarse problem is solved via a direct method. In this paper, we introduce a multilevel variant in the context of subspace correction methods and provide a general convergence theory for its robust convergence for abstract, elliptic variational problems. Assumptions of the theory are verified for conforming as well as for discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to a scalar diffusion problem. Numerical results illustrate the performance of the method for two- and three-dimensional problems and for various discretization schemes, in the context of scalar diffusion and linear elasticity.
Item Description:Online veröffentlicht: 31. January 2022
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ISSN:1095-7197
DOI:10.1137/21M1427231