ParMooN-A modernized program package based on mapped finite elements

Wilbrandt, Ulrich and Bartsch, Clemens and Ahmed, Naveed and Alia, Najib and Anker, Felix and Blank, Laura and Caiazzo, Alfonso and Ganesan, Sashikumaar and Giere, Swetlana and Matthies, Gunar and Meesala, Raviteja and Shamim, Abdus and Venkatesan, Jagannath and John, Volker (2017) ParMooN-A modernized program package based on mapped finite elements. In: COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS, 74 (1). pp. 74-88.

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Abstract

PARMooN is a program package for the numerical solution of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. It inherits the distinct features of its predecessor MooNMD (John and Matthies, 2004): strict decoupling of geometry and finite element spaces, implementation of mapped finite elements as their definition can be found in textbooks, and a geometric multigrid preconditioner with the option to use different finite element spaces on different levels of the multigrid hierarchy. After having presented some thoughts about in-house research codes, this paper focuses on aspects of the parallelization for a distributed memory environment, which is the main novelty of PARMooN. Numerical studies, performed on compute servers, assess the efficiency of the parallelized geometric multigrid preconditioner in comparison with some parallel solvers that are available in the library PETSc. The results of these studies give a first indication whether the cumbersome implementation of the parallelized geometric multigrid method was worthwhile or not. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belongs to the PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre
Date Deposited:	14 Jul 2017 04:32
Last Modified:	14 Jul 2017 04:32
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/57362

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