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Osteoporosis is considered as a major health problem in the world. An understanding of the behavior of human bone under cyclic load requires numerical simulation of the physics. For that purpose, a large scale poroleastic solver is developed based on the mixed finite element method. This approach is free of numerical instabilities yet the discretization leads to an indefinite system that needs special attention. In this work, a comparison is made on several preconditioners that work efficiently in parallel environments.
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Arbenz, P., Turan, E. (2013). Preconditioning for Large Scale Micro Finite Element Analyses of 3D Poroelasticity. In: Manninen, P., Öster, P. (eds) Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing. PARA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36803-5_26
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