Solution of large nonlinear quasistatic structural mechanics problems on distributed-memory multiprocessor computers
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Most commercially-available quasistatic finite element programs assemble element stiffnesses into a global stiffness matrix, then use a direct linear equation solver to obtain nodal displacements. However, for large problems (greater than a few hundred thousand degrees of freedom), the memory size and computation time required for this approach becomes prohibitive. Moreover, direct solution does not lend itself to the parallel processing needed for today`s multiprocessor systems. This talk gives an overview of the iterative solution strategy of JAS3D, the nonlinear large-deformation quasistatic finite element program. Because its architecture is derived from an explicit transient-dynamics code, it does not ever assemble a global stiffness matrix. The author describes the approach he used to implement the solver on multiprocessor computers, and shows examples of problems run on hundreds of processors and more than a million degrees of freedom. Finally, he describes some of the work he is presently doing to address the challenges of iterative convergence for ill-conditioned problems.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 332726
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-98-1591; CONF-9709141-PROC.; ON: DE99000778; TRN: IM9916%%28
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. joint Russian-American computational mathematics conference, Albuquerque, NM (United States), 2-5 Sep 1997; Other Information: PBD: [1997]; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 5. joint Russian-American computational mathematics conference; PB: 312 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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