Mat-1.3656 Seminar on numerical analysis and computational science

Monday, November 2, 2009, room U322 at 14.15, Eirola & Stenberg

Antti Hannukainen, TKK Mat

FEM on hierarchical meshes

Several preconditioners  for solving finite element problems (e.g. multigrid, BPX) are built on the existence of a mesh hierarchy. Such hierarchical structure can be used also in the assembly of the system matrix or in constructing an operator acting as the system matrix. In this talk, we will discuss, how this can be efficiently done. The presented method solves the Poisson equation with 100*10^6 degrees of freedom in one standard workstation in less than 2 hours.