A combined linear and nonlinear preconditioning technique for incompressible navier-stokes equations

Abstract

We propose a new two-level nonlinear additive Schwarz preconditioned inexact Newton algorithm (ASPIN). The two-level nonlinear preconditioner combines a local nonlinear additive Schwarz preconditioner and a global linear coarse preconditioner. Our parallel numerical results based on a lid-driven cavity incompressible flow problem show that the new two-level ASPIN is nearly scalable with respect to the number of processors if the coarse mesh size is fine enough. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.