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A FETI-DP formulation for the Stokes problem without primal pressure components. (English) Zbl 1275.76160

Summary: A scalable FETI-DP (dual-primal finite element tearing and interconnecting) algorithm for the Stokes problem that employs a lumped preconditioner is developed and analyzed. A pair of inf-sup stable velocity and pressure finite element spaces is used to obtain a discrete problem. Differently from previous approaches, no primal pressure unknowns are selected and only velocity primal unknowns at subdomain corners are selected. This leads to a symmetric and positive definite coarse problem matrix in the FETI-DP operator, while a larger and indefinite coarse problem appears in the previous approaches. In addition, its condition number bound is proved to be the same as the FETI-DP algorithm with a lumped preconditioner for elliptic problems. Numerical results are included.

MSC:

76M10 Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics
65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
65N55 Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for boundary value problems involving PDEs
76D07 Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows
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