Using Algebraic Multigrid in Inexact BDDC Domain Decomposition Methods Axel Klawonn, Martin Lanser, and Oliver Rheinbach 1 Introduction Traditionally, domain decomposition methods use sparse direct solvers as building blocks, i.e., to solve local subdomain problems and/or the coarse problem. Often, the sparse direct solvers can be replaced by spectrally equivalent preconditioners without loss of convergence speed. In FETI-DP and BDDC domain decomposition methods, such approaches have first been introduced in [9, 8, 4], and have since then successfully been used in large parallel codes [6, 1]. 2 An Inexact BDDC Method 2.1 A BDDC Preconditioner for the Assembled System Let us briefly describe the BDDC preconditioner which can directly be applied to a linear system Au = b (1) arising from a finite element discretization of a partial differential equation on a d computational domain W ⊂ R ; d = 2;3. The variant discussed here was first intro- duced in [9]. Let Wi; i = 1;:::;N; be a nonoverlapping domain decomposition of SN W such that W = i=1 W i. Each subdomain Wi is discretized using finite elements, Axel Klawonn, Martin Lanser Mathematisches Institut, Universitat¨ zu Koln,¨ Weyertal 86-90, 50931 Koln,¨ Germany, e-mail: faxel.klawonn,
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[email protected] 1 2 Axel Klawonn, Martin Lanser, and Oliver Rheinbach the corresponding local finite element spaces are denoted by Wi; i = 1;:::;N, and the product space is defined by W = W1 ×:::×WN.