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The technique of distributive relaxations is presented for the spectral Stokes operator. The sample iterative method is described and its equivalence to the Uzawa algorithm is shown. Furthermore the occurrence of the spectral Pseudo-Laplace operator is demonstrated. Numerical results are presented which show the good performance of the distributive relaxations.
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Heinrichs, W. Distributive relaxations for the spectral stokes operator. J Sci Comput 8, 389–398 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01061146
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