Robust Solvers for Symmetric Positive Definite Operators and Weighted Poincaré Inequalities

Type
Book Chapter

Authors
Efendiev, Yalchin R.
Galvis, Juan
Lazarov, Raytcho
Willems, Joerg

KAUST Grant Number
KUS-C1-016-04

Date
2012

Abstract
An abstract setting for robustly preconditioning symmetric positive definite (SPD) operators is presented. The term "robust" refers to the property of the condition numbers of the preconditioned systems being independent of mesh parameters and problem parameters. Important instances of such problem parameters are in particular (highly varying) coefficients. The method belongs to the class of additive Schwarz preconditioners. The paper gives an overview of the results obtained in a recent paper by the authors. It, furthermore, focuses on the importance of weighted Poincaré inequalities, whose notion is extended to general SPD operators, for the analysis of stable decompositions. To demonstrate the applicability of the abstract preconditioner the scalar elliptic equation and the stream function formulation of Brinkman's equations in two spatial dimensions are considered. Several numerical examples are presented. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Citation
Efendiev Y, Galvis J, Lazarov R, Willems J (2012) Robust Solvers for Symmetric Positive Definite Operators and Weighted Poincaré Inequalities. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 43–51. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29843-1_4.

Acknowledgements
The research of Y. Efendiev was partially supported bythe DOE and NSF (DMS 0934837, DMS 0724704, and DMS 0811180). The re-search of Y. Efendiev, J. Galvis, and R. Lazarov was supported in parts by awardKUS-C1-016-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(KAUST). The research of R. Lazarov and J. Willems was supported in partsby NSF Grant DMS-1016525.

Publisher
Springer Nature

Journal
Lecture Notes in Computer Science

DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-29843-1_4

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