Parallel H1-based auxiliary space AMG solver for H(curl) problems
Author(s) -
Tzanio Kolev,
Panayot S. Vassilevski
Publication year - 2006
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/897951
Subject(s) - solver , multigrid method , curl (programming language) , scalability , computer science , discretization , finite element method , computational science , parallel computing , sparse matrix , algebraic number , mathematics , physics , programming language , mathematical analysis , chemistry , computational chemistry , database , gaussian , partial differential equation , thermodynamics
This report describes a parallel implementation of the auxiliary space methods for definite Maxwell problems proposed in [4]. The solver, named AMS, extends our previous study [7]. AMS uses ParCSR sparse matrix storage and the parallel AMG (algebraic multigrid) solver BoomerAMG [1] from the hypre library. It is designed for general unstructured finite element discretizations of (semi)definite H(curl) problems discretized by Nedelec elements. We document the usage of AMS and illustrate its parallel scalability and overall performance
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