Hybridization of FETI Methods

Overview & Synopsis

In this work new domain decomposition methods and new implementations for existing methods are developed. A new method based on previous domain decomposition methods is formulated. The classic FETI plus FETI-2LM methods are used to build the new Hybrid-FETI. The basic idea is to develop a new algorithm that can use both methods at the same time by choosing in each interface the most suited condition depending on the characteristics of the problem. By doing this we search to have a faster and more robust code that can work with configurations that the base methods will not handle it optimally by himself. The performance is tested on a contact problem. The following part involves the development of a new implementation for the S-FETI method, the idea is to reduce the memory usage of this method, to make it able to work in larger problem. Different variation for this method are also proposed, all searching the reduction of directions stored each iteration of the iterative method. Finally, an extension of the FETI-2LM method to his block version as in S-FETI, is developed. Numerical results for the different algorithms are presented.