Overlapping Schwarz preconditioner for the mixed formulation of plane elasticity

  • Authors:
  • Yanqiu Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, TX

  • Venue:
  • Applied Numerical Mathematics - 6th IMACS International symposium on iterative methods in scientific computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Recently a stable pair of finite element spaces for the mixed formulation of the plane elasticity system has been developed by Arnold and Winther. Here we construct a two-level overlapping Schwarz preconditioner for the resulting discrete system. Essentially, this reduces to finding an efficient preconditioner for the form (ċ,ċ) + (divċ, divċ) in the symmetric tensor space H(div,Ω). The main difficulty comes from the well known complexity of building preconditioners for the div operator. We solve it by taking a decomposition similar to the Helmholz decomposition. Both additive and multiplicative preconditioners are studied, and the conditioner numbers are shown to be uniform with respect to the mesh size.