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A Nearly Optimal Preconditioner for the Navier--Stokes Equations

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Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 8 (4): 229--243 (June 2001)
DOI: 10.1002/nla.239

Abstract

We present a preconditioner for the linearized Navier–Stokes equations which is based on the combination of a fast transform approximation of an advection diffusion problem together with the recently introduced 'BFBTT' preconditioner of Elman (SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, 1999; 20:1299–1316). The resulting preconditioner when combined with an appropriate Krylov subspace iteration method yields the solution in a number of iterations which appears to be independent of the Reynolds number provided a mesh Péclet number restriction holds, and depends only mildly on the mesh size. The preconditioner is particularly appropriate for problems involving a primary flow direction.

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