A Multilayer Nonlinear Elimination Preconditioned Inexact Newton Method for Steady-State Incompressible Flow Problems in Three Dimensions

Li Luo, Xiao Chuan Cai, Zhengzheng Yan, Lei Xu, David E. Keyes

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Abstract

We develop a multilayer nonlinear elimination preconditioned inexact Newton method for a nonlinear algebraic system of equations, and a target application is the three-dimensional steady-state incompressible Navier--Stokes equations at high Reynolds numbers. Nonlinear steadystate problems are often more difficult to solve than time-dependent problems because the Jacobian matrix is less diagonally dominant, and a good initial guess from the previous time step is not available. For such problems, Newton-like methods may suffer from slow convergence or stagnation even with globalization techniques such as line search. In this paper, we introduce a cascadic multilayer nonlinear elimination approach based on feedback from intermediate solutions to improve the convergence of Newton iteration. Numerical experiments show that the proposed algorithm is superior to the classical inexact Newton method and other single layer nonlinear elimination approaches in terms of the robustness and efficiency. Using the proposed nonlinear preconditioner with a highly parallel domain decomposition framework, we demonstrate that steady solutions of the Navier--Stokes equations with Reynolds numbers as large as 7,500 can be obtained for the lid-driven cavity flow problem in three dimensions without the use of any continuation methods.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)B1404-B1428
Number of pages1
JournalSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Volume42
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 24 2020

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