Dual-Primal FETI methods for stationary Navier-Stokes equations

Jing Li

Center for Aerospace Structures, UCB 429, Boulder, CO 80309


Abstract

Finite element tearing and interconnecting (FETI) type domain decomposition methods are first extended to solving linearized stationary Navier-Stokes equations. The resulting linear system is not symmetric and a GMRES method is used to solve the preconditioned linear system. Numerical experiments show that, for small Reynolds number, the convergence of GMRES method is similar to the convergence of solving symmetric Stokes equations with the conjugate gradient method. The convergence of GMRES method depends on the Reynolds number; the larger the Reynolds number, the slower the convergence. Dual-primal FETI algorithms are further extended to nonlinear stationary Navier-Stokes equations, which are solved by using a Picard iteration. In each iteration step, a linearized Navier-Stokes equation is solved by using a dual-primal FETI algorithm. Numerical experiments indicate that convergence of the Picard iteration depends on the Reynolds number, but is independent of both the number of subdomains and the subdomain problem size.