A linear Uzawa-type solver for nonlinear transmission problems
Abstract
We propose an Uzawa-type iteration for the Johnson-N\'ed\'elec formulation of a Laplace-type transmission problem with possible (strongly monotone) nonlinearity in the interior domain. In each step, we sequentially solve one BEM for the weakly-singular integral equation associated with the Laplace-operator and one FEM for the linear Yukawa equation. In particular, the nonlinearity is only evaluated to build the right-hand side of the Yukawa equation. We prove that the proposed method leads to linear convergence with respect to the number of Uzawa iterations. Moreover, while the current analysis of a direct FEM-BEM discretization of the Johnson-N\'ed\'elec formulation requires some restrictions on the ellipticity (resp. strong monotonicity constant) in the interior domain, our Uzawa-type solver avoids such assumptions.
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@article{arxiv.1703.10796,
title = {A linear Uzawa-type solver for nonlinear transmission problems},
author = {Thomas Führer and Dirk Praetorius},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10796},
year = {2018}
}