On a robust and scalable linear elasticity solver based on a saddle point formulation

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 801-818

  Axelsson, Owe ^a   Padiy, Alexander ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Linear elasticity; Mixed finite elements; Multilevel iterative methods; Optimal order preconditioning; Parameter free solvers; Regularized Stokes equations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

REGULARIZED STOKES EQUATIONS;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 0033079214     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990228)44:6<801::AID-NME525>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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