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Overlapping Schwarz for Nonlinear Problems. An Element Agglomeration Nonlinear Additive Schwarz Preconditioned Newton Method for Unstructured Finite Element Problems

Journal Article · · Application of Mathematics, vol. 50, no. 3, July 12, 2005, pp. 247-275
OSTI ID:936450

This paper extends previous results on nonlinear Schwarz preconditioning ([4]) to unstructured finite element elliptic problems exploiting now nonlocal (but small) subspaces. The non-local finite element subspaces are associated with subdomains obtained from a non-overlapping element partitioning of the original set of elements and are coarse outside the prescribed element subdomain. The coarsening is based on a modification of the agglomeration based AMGe method proposed in [8]. Then, the algebraic construction from [9] of the corresponding non-linear finite element subproblems is applied to generate the subspace based nonlinear preconditioner. The overall nonlinearly preconditioned problem is solved by an inexact Newton method. Numerical illustration is also provided.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
936450
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JRNL-209688
Journal Information:
Application of Mathematics, vol. 50, no. 3, July 12, 2005, pp. 247-275, Journal Name: Application of Mathematics, vol. 50, no. 3, July 12, 2005, pp. 247-275 Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 50
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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