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The behavior of domain decomposition methods when the overlapping length is large

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In this paper, we introduce a new approach for the convergence problem of optimized Schwarz methods by studying a generalization of these methods for a semilinear elliptic equation. We study the behavior of the algorithm when the overlapping length is large.

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Tran, MB. The behavior of domain decomposition methods when the overlapping length is large. centr.eur.j.math. 12, 1602–1614 (2014). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11533-014-0431-0

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