Local Multilevel Methods for Second-Order Elliptic Problems with Highly Discontinuous Coefficients

Local Multilevel Methods for Second-Order Elliptic Problems with Highly Discontinuous Coefficients

Year:    2012

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 30 (2012), Iss. 3 : pp. 223–248

Abstract

In this paper, local multiplicative and additive multilevel methods on adaptively refined meshes are considered for second-order elliptic problems with highly discontinuous coefficients. For the multilevel-preconditioned system, we study the distribution of its spectrum by using the abstract Schwarz theory. It is proved that, except for a few small eigenvalues, the spectrum of the preconditioned system is bounded quasi-uniformly with respect to the jumps of the coefficient and the mesh sizes. The convergence rate of multilevel-preconditioned conjugate gradient methods is shown to be quasi-optimal regarding the jumps and the meshes. Numerical experiments are presented to illustrate the theoretical findings.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1109-m3401

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 30 (2012), Iss. 3 : pp. 223–248

Published online:    2012-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    26

Keywords:    Local multilevel method Adaptive finite element method Preconditioned conjugate gradient method Discontinuous coefficients.