Sparse approximations on polygonal meshes based on boundary element domain decomposition techniques
Dipl.-Ing. David Pusch
Oct. 24, 2006, 1:30 p.m. T 1010We present new boundary element discretizations for diffusion-type equations on polygonal meshes. The motivation of this problem type is given by porous media applications.
Based on boundary element domain decomposition techniques we obtain an approximation which leads to large-scale sparse linear systems. We consider single elements as subdomains and construct corresponding local SteklovPoincar'e operators S i. Note, that the computational domain can consist of arbitrary polygonal elements. Finally, our system matrix is represented by the assembled Steklov-Poincar'e operator.
In our numerical experiments we are solving the matrix equation system by the conjugate gradient method. It turned out that using algebraic multigrid preconditioners (PEBBLES) yields an almost optimal solver.
