Monolithic Multi-level Overlapping Schwarz Solvers for Fluid Problems

TL;DR

This paper presents scalable monolithic overlapping Schwarz solvers for fluid problems, demonstrating high-performance parallel results up to 32768 MPI ranks using advanced domain decomposition techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a multi-level overlapping Schwarz preconditioner framework integrated with FROSch and FEATFLOW libraries for efficient large-scale fluid simulations.

Findings

Achieved parallel scalability up to 32768 MPI ranks.

Implemented two- and three-level monolithic Schwarz preconditioners.

Validated performance on complex fluid flow geometries.

Abstract

Additive overlapping Schwarz Methods are iterative methods of the domain decomposition type for the solution of partial differential equations. Numerical and parallel scalability of these methods can be achieved by adding coarse levels. A successful coarse space, inspired by iterative substructuring, is the generalized Dryja-Smith-Widlund (GDSW) space. In https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1184047, based on the GDSW approach, two-level monolithic overlapping Schwarz preconditioners for saddle point problems were introduced. We present parallel results up to 32768 MPI ranks for the solution of incompressible fluid problems for a Poiseuille flow example on the unit cube and a complex extrusion die geometry using a two- and a three-level monolithic overlapping Schwarz preconditioner. These results are achieved through the combination of the additive overlapping Schwarz solvers implemented in the Fast and Robust Overlapping Schwarz (FROSch) library https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56750-7_19, which is part of the Trilinos package ShyLU https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2012.64, and the FEATFLOW library http://www.featflow.de using a scalable interface for the efficient coupling of the two libraries. This work is part of the project StroemungsRaum - Novel Exascale-Architectures with Heterogeneous Hardware Components for Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations, funded by the German Bundesministerium fur Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt BMFTR (formerly BMBF) as part of the program on New Methods and Technologies for Exascale Computing (SCALEXA).