Final Project, Iterative methods for PDE's with highly discontinuous coefficients,
Due May 15, 1998

MATH 7664: Iterative Methods in Numerical Linear Algebra
Spring 1998. University of Colorado Denver


INSTRUCTOR:
Prof. Andrew Knyazev
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Project Description:
We consider a parametric family of homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problems for the diffusion equation -div( k grad u)=f with the diffusion coefficient k=k(x) equal to a small constant, our parameter, in a subdomain. Such problems are not uniformly well-posed when the parameter gets small. We consider a traditional FEM with the only additional assumption that the boundary of the subdomain with the small coefficient does not cut any finite element. We use different iterative methods with different initial approximations. Our goal is to look into dependence of the convergence rate on the parameter in a standard parameter-independent Sobolev norm.

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