Related papers: Robust Block Preconditioners for Biot's Model
The coupled Darcy-Stokes problem is widely used for modeling fluid transport in physical systems consisting of a porous part and a free part. In this work we consider preconditioners for monolitic solution algorithms of the coupled…
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We present residual-based a posteriori error estimates of mixed finite element methods for the three-field formulation of Biot's consolidation model. The error estimator is an upper and lower bound of the space time discretization error up…
We present a preconditioning method for the linear systems arising from the boundary element discretization of the Laplace hypersingular equation on a $2$-dimensional triangulated surface $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We allow $\Gamma$ to…
The focus of this study is the construction and numerical validation of parallel block preconditioners for low order virtual element discretizations of the three-dimensional Maxwell equations. The virtual element method (VEM) is a recent…
We consider iterative methods for solving the linearised Navier-Stokes equations arising from two-phase flow problems and the efficient preconditioning of such systems when using mixed finite element methods. Our target application is…
In this paper, we consider partitioned numerical methods for quasi-static multiple-network poroelasticity (MPET) equations, generalizations of the Biot model in poroelasticity for multiple pore networks. Two partitioned numerical methods…
Computational formulations for large strain, polyconvex, nearly incompressible elasticity have been extensively studied, but research on enhancing solution schemes that offer better tradeoffs between accuracy, robustness, and computational…
This paper considers the iterative solution of linear systems arising from discretization of the anisotropic radiative transfer equation with discontinuous elements on the sphere. In order to achieve robust convergence behavior in the…
In this paper, we develop a discretization for the non-linear coupled model of classical Darcy-Forchheimer flow in deformable porous media, an extension of the quasi-static Biot equations. The continuous model exhibits a generalized…
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Finite difference/element/volume methods of discretising PDEs impose a subgrid scale interpolation on the dynamics. In contrast, the holistic discretisation approach developed herein constructs a natural subgrid scale field adapted to the…
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This is the third part in a series on a mass conserving, high order, mixed finite element method for Stokes flow. In this part, we study a block-diagonal preconditioner for the indefinite Schur complement system arising from the…
An adapted deflation preconditioner is employed to accelerate the solution of linear systems resulting from the discretization of fracture mechanics problems with well-conditioned extended/generalized finite elements. The deflation space…
We develop a novel iterative solution method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with boundary conditions coupled with reduced models. The iterative algorithm is designed based on the variational multiscale formulation and the…
An adaptive discretization refinement strategy for steady state discrete mesoscale models of coupled mechanics and mass transport in concrete is presented. Coupling is provided by two phenomena: the Biot's theory of poromechanics and an…
We present first-order nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart discretizations for the nonlinear generalized Stokes equations with $(r,\epsilon)$-structure. Thereby the velocity-errors are independent of the pressure-error; i.e., the method is…
For 2x2 block matrices, it is well-known that block-triangular or block-LDU preconditioners with an exact Schur complement (inverse) converge in at most two iterations for fixed-point or minimal-residual methods. Similarly, for saddle-point…
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