Engineering Transactions, 65, 1, pp. 163–170, 2017
10.24423/engtrans.743.2017

Evaluation of Partial Factorization for Reduction of Finite Element Matrices

Pawel JARZĘBSKI
http://www.ippt.pan.pl/en/staff/pjarz
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences
Poland

Krzysztof WIŚNIEWSKI
http://www.ippt.pan.pl/en/staff/kwisn
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences
Poland

In this paper, we present the concept of Partial Factorization [1] And discuss its possible applications to the Finite Element method. We consider: (1) reduction of the element tangent matrix, which is particularly important for mixed/enhanced elements and (2) reduction of the sub-domain matrices of the Domain Decomposition (DD) equation solvers run either sequentially on a single machine or in parallel on a cluster of computers. We demonstrate that Partial Factorization can be beneficial for these applications.
Keywords: multi-scale models of multi-layer shells; mixed/enhanced finite elements; parallel computing; Domain Decomposition, solvers
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DOI: 10.24423/engtrans.743.2017