Deflated preconditioned conjugate gradient solvers for the Pressure-Poisson equation

  • Authors:
  • Romain Aubry;Fernando Mut;Rainald Löhner;Juan R. Cebral

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, College of Sciences, M.S. 6A2, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2030-4444, USA;Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, College of Sciences, M.S. 6A2, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2030-4444, USA;Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, College of Sciences, M.S. 6A2, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2030-4444, USA;Center for Computational Fluid Dynamics, College of Sciences, M.S. 6A2, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2030-4444, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A deflated preconditioned conjugate gradient technique has been developed for the solution of the Pressure-Poisson equation within an incompressible flow solver. The deflation is done using a region-based decomposition of the unknowns, making it extremely simple to implement. The procedure has shown a considerable reduction in the number of iterations. For grids with large graph-depth the savings exceed an order of magnitude. Furthermore, the technique has shown a remarkable insensitivity to the number of groups/regions chosen, and to the way the groups are formed.