Adaptive-Multilevel BDDC and its parallel implementation

  • Authors:
  • Bedřich Sousedík;Jakub Šístek;Jan Mandel

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA 90089-2531 and Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prag ...;Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 1, Czech Republic 115 67;Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA 80217-3364

  • Venue:
  • Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We combine the adaptive and multilevel approaches to the BDDC and formulate a method which allows an adaptive selection of constraints on each decomposition level. We also present a strategy for the solution of local eigenvalue problems in the adaptive algorithm using the LOBPCG method with a preconditioner based on standard components of the BDDC. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated on several engineering problems. It appears that the Adaptive-Multilevel BDDC algorithm is able to effectively detect troublesome parts on each decomposition level and improve convergence of the method. The developed open-source parallel implementation shows a good scalability as well as applicability to very large problems and core counts.