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Title: Domain decomposition preconditioners for elliptic problems in two and three dimensions: First approach

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OSTI ID:7065844

In this talk, we shall describe some domain decomposition preconditioners for elliptic boundary value problems in two and three dimensions. We consider the case where more than two subdomains meet at an interior point of the original domain; this allows a subdivision into an arbitrary number of subdomains without the deterioration of the iterative convergence rates of the resulting algorithms. The described preconditioners (for both two and three dimensional applications) result in preconditioned systems whose condition number growth is bounded by c(1 + ln/sup 2/ (d/h)). Here h is the mesh size and d is roughly the size of the largest subdomain. We finally give a technique which utilizes the earlier described methods to derive even more efficient preconditioners. This technique leads to preconditioned systems whose condition number remains bounded independently of the number of unknowns. 11 refs.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
OSTI ID:
7065844
Report Number(s):
BNL-39166; CONF-870146-1; ON: DE87005241
Resource Relation:
Conference: 1. international conference on domain decomposition, Paris, France, 7 Jan 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English