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Boundary Element Tearing and Interconnecting Domain Decomposition Methods

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Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics

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The combination of non-overlapping domain decomposition methods with fast boundary element methods provides an efficient simulation tool to handle coupled boundary value problems with piecewise constant coefficients. Based on a standard boundary element domain decomposition formulation using the symmetric boundary integral representation of the Dirichlet to Neumann map, i.e., the Steklov—Poincaré operator, we have to solve a system of linear equations in parallel, where the assembled stiffness matrix is symmetric and positive definite. Instead, by using a boundary element tearing and interconnecting approach we have to solve a saddle point problem or the dual problem for finding the Lagrange multipliers. For this method, we describe different preconditioned solution strategies using both, local and global preconditioning techniques. All local boundary integral operators are realized via a fast multipole method leading to an almost optimal algorithm. Besides a rigorous mathematical analysis we give numerical examples and applications for the potential equation as well as for the system of linear elastostatics with jumping coefficients.

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Of, G., Steinbach, O., Wendland, W.L. (2006). Boundary Element Tearing and Interconnecting Domain Decomposition Methods. In: Helmig, R., Mielke, A., Wohlmuth, B.I. (eds) Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34961-7_14

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