Robust solvers for symmetric positive definite operators and weighted Poincaré inequalities

Yalchin Efendiev*, Juan Galvis, Raytcho Lazarov, Joerg Willems

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Abstract

An abstract setting for robustly preconditioning symmetric positive definite (SPD) operators is presented. The term "robust" refers to the property of the condition numbers of the preconditioned systems being independent of mesh parameters and problem parameters. Important instances of such problem parameters are in particular (highly varying) coefficients. The method belongs to the class of additive Schwarz preconditioners. The paper gives an overview of the results obtained in a recent paper by the authors. It, furthermore, focuses on the importance of weighted Poincaré inequalities, whose notion is extended to general SPD operators, for the analysis of stable decompositions. To demonstrate the applicability of the abstract preconditioner the scalar elliptic equation and the stream function formulation of Brinkman's equations in two spatial dimensions are considered. Several numerical examples are presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLarge-Scale Scientific Computing - 8th International Conference, LSSC 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Pages43-51
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event8th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations,LSSC 2011 - Sozopol, Bulgaria
Duration: Jun 6 2011Jun 10 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7116 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations,LSSC 2011
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CitySozopol
Period06/6/1106/10/11

Keywords

  • Brinkman's problem
  • domain decomposition
  • generalized weighted Poincaré inequalities
  • high contrast
  • robust additive Schwarz preconditioner
  • spectral coarse spaces

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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