GPU acceleration of FEM solver with applications to Geotechnical Engineering

In finite element software one has to solve a system of non-linear equations, which is commonly simplified to a sequence of linear system. We research the possibility to solve these systems on a GPU to improve the solve time. We are particularly interested in systems arising from geotechnical models. We compare several combinations of Krylov...

Numerical methods for diffusion problems with a large contrast in the coefficients

Numerical methods for solving problems with a large contrast in the coefficients are investigated in this report. These types of problems typically appear in basin modeling. Specifically, the deflation and restricted additive Schwarz (RAS) methods are compared for their effectiveness in solving this type of problem in combination with the...

Numerical Methods for Large Thermo-Mechanical Systems

Numerical methods are investigated for solving large-scale sparse linear systems of equations, that can be applied to thermo-mechanical models and wafer-slip models. This thesis examines efficient numerical methods, in terms of memory, number of iterations required for convergence, and computation time. To be more specific, algebraic multigrid ...

Comparison of Two-Level Preconditioners using Deflation Techniques applied to Flow Problems

We investigate the simulation of one-phase and two-phase flow through heterogeneous porous media.The derived matrix, resulting from reservoir simulation of groundwater flow problems, can result in a large and ill-conditioned system, i.e. the matrix has a high condition number, and the modelling takes large computation time. In this thesis report...