Author(s)

J. Avrashi, O. Michael & G. Rosenhouse

Abstract

Domain decomposition technique using the boundary spectral strip method J. Avrashi," O. Michael/ G. Rosenhouse'' "Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel "Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel ABSTRACT A new domain decomposition technique for the boundary spectral strip method is offered in the present work. The proposed scheme is based on dividing the overall domain of a complex problem into several subdomains. In the first step each of the subdomains in the BIEM matrices is computed independently These matrices together with an arbitrary initial guess for the displacements on the interface of two neighboring subdomains, enable an iterative and a very efficient solution of the whole problem. Several convergence criteria for the iterative solution were tested on problems of elastostatics. Numerical results comparing the present scheme with single domain solut

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