Multiplicative Schwarz Algorithms for the Galerkin Boundary Element Method

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Maischak

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We study the multiplicative Schwarz method for the h- and the p-version Galerkin boundary element method for a hypersingular and a weakly singular integral equation of the first kind. For both integral equations we prove that the contraction rate of the multiplicative Schwarz operator is strictly less than 1 for the h-version for the two level and the multilevel methods, whereas for the p-version we show that the contraction rate approaches one only logarithmically in p for the 2-level method. Computational results are presented for both the h-version and the p-version which support our theory.