Two-level preconditioned conjugate gradient methods with applications to bubbly flow problems

The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method is one of the most popular iterative methods for solving large linear systems with a symmetric and positive semi-definite coefficient matrix. However, if the preconditioned coefficient matrix is ill-conditioned, the convergence of the PCG method typically deteriorates. Instead, a two-level PCG...

Deflated ICCG Method solving the Singular and Discontinuous Diffusion Equation derived from 3-D Multi-Phase Flows

Simulating bubbly flows is a very popular topic in CFD. These bubbly flows are governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. In many popular operator splitting formulations for these equations, solving the linear system coming from the discontinuous diffusion equation takes the most computational time, despite of its elliptic origins. Sometimes these...

Deflated ICCG Method solving the Singular and Discontinuous Diffusion Equation derived from 3-D Multi-Phase Flows

Simulating bubbly flows is a very popular topic in CFD. These bubbly flows are governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. In many popular operator splitting formulations for these equations, solving the linear system coming from the discontinuous diffusion equation takes the most computational time, despite of its elliptic origins. Sometimes these...

New variants of deflation techniques for bubbly flow problems

For various applications, it is well-known that deflated ICCG is an efficient method for solving linear systems with invertible and singular co-efficient matrix. This deflated ICCG with subdomain deflation vectors is used by us to solve linear systems with singular coefficient matrix, arising from a discretization of the Poisson equation with...

On the theory of deflation and singular symmetric positive semi-definite matrices

In this report we give new insights into the properties of invertible and singular deflated and preconditioned linear systems where the coefficient matrices are also symmetric and positive (semi-) definite. First we prove that the invertible de ated matrix has always a more favorable effeective condition number compared to the original matrix....