We consider the Lame equations with highly
discontinuous coefficients between subdomains.
We suggest numerical iterative solvers
with convergence uniform in the jump
of the coefficients. We also consider
limit cases of absolutely incompressible and
absolutely compressible media.
We find the null-space for the absolutely compressible
case and describe its relationship to eigenfunctions of
the Cosserat eigenproblem.
The talk is based on the following paper:
N. S. Bakhvalov, A. V. Knyazev, and R. R. Parashkevov,
An Efficient Iterative Method for solving Lam\'{e} equations for nearly
incompressible media and Stokes equations with highly discontinuous coefficients.
Published as a technical report
UCD-CCM 120, 1998, at the
Center for Computational Mathematics, University of Colorado Denver