Interface Control Domain Decomposition (ICDD) Methods for Heterogeneous Problems

26/2014

Interface Control Domain Decomposition (ICDD) Methods for Heterogeneous Problems

Thursday 3rd July 2014

Discacciati, M.; Gervasio, P.; Quarteroni, A.

This paper is concerned with the solution of heterogeneous problems by the ICDD (Interface Control Domain Decomposition) method, a strategy introduced for the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) in computational domains partitioned into subdomains that overlap. After reformulating the original boundary value problem by introducing new additional control variables, the unknown traces of the solution at internal subdomain interfaces, the latter are determined by requiring that the (a-priori) independent solutions in each subdomain undergo the minimization of a suitable cost functional. We provide an abstract formulation for coupled heterogeneous problems and a general theorem of wellposedness for the associated ICDD problem. Then, we illustrate and validate an efficient algorithm based on the solution of the Schur-complement system restricted solely to the interface control variables by considering two kinds of heterogeneous boundary value problems: the coupling between pure advection and advection-diffusion equations, and the coupling between Stokes and Darcy equations. In the latter case we also compare the ICDD method with a classical approach based on the Beavers-Joseph-Saffman conditions.