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We give several additive Schwarz domain decomposition methods for solving finite element problems which arise from the discretizations of elliptic problems on general unstructured meshes in two and three dimensions. Our theory requires no assumption (for the main results) on the substructures which constitute the whole domain, so each substructure can be of arbitrary shape and of different size. The global coarse mesh is allowed to be non-nested to the fine grid on which the discrete problem is to be solved and both the coarse meshes and the fine meshes need not be quasi-uniform. In this general setting, our algorithms have the same optimal convergence rate of the usual domain decomposition methods on structured meshes. The condition numbers of the preconditioned systems depend only on the (possibly small) overlap of the substructures and the size of the coares grid, but is independent of the sizes of the subdomains.
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Communicated by G. Meurant
Revised version on Sept. 20, 1994. Original version: CAM Report 93-40, Dec. 1993, Dept. of Math., UCLA.
The work of this author was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under contract ASC 92-01266, the Army Research Office under contract DAAL03-91-G-0150, and ONR under contract ONR-N00014-92-J-1890.
The work of this author was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under contract ASC 92-01266, the Army Research Office under contract DAAL03-91-G-0150, and subcontract DAAL03-91-C-0047.
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Chan, T.F., Zou, J. Additive Schwarz domain decomposition methods for elliptic problems on unstructured meshes. Numer Algor 8, 329–346 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02142697
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