Eigenvalue bounds for the Schur complement with a pressure convection-diffusion preconditioner in incompressible flow computations

  • Authors:
  • Paul Deuring

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Lille Nord de France, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, BP 699, 62228 Calais cédex, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

If the stationary Navier-Stokes system or an implicit time discretization of the evolutionary Navier-Stokes system is linearized by a Picard iteration and discretized in space by a mixed finite element method, there arises a saddle point system which may be solved by a Krylov subspace method or an Uzawa type approach. For each of these resolution methods, it is necessary to precondition the Schur complement associated to the saddle point problem in question. In the work at hand, we give upper and lower bounds of the eigenvalues of this Schur complement under the assumption that it is preconditioned by a pressure convection-diffusion matrix.