The 2-Lagrange Multiplier Method Applied to Nonlinear Transmission Problems for the Richards Equation in Heterogeneous Soil with Cross Points

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Beitragende

  • Heiko Berninger - , Universität Genf (Autor:in)
  • Sébastien Loisel - , Heriot-Watt University (Autor:in)
  • Oliver Sander - , Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Autor:in)

Abstract

We formulate the 2-Lagrange multiplier method for the Richards equation in heterogeneous soil. This allows a rigorous formulation of a discrete version of the Richards equation on subdomain decompositions involving cross points. Using Kirchhoff transformation, the individual subdomain problems can be transformed into convex minimization problems and solved efficiently using a monotone multigrid method. We discuss and compare weak formulations of the time-discrete and fully discretized multidomain problem. It is shown that in the case of two subdomains, when solving the resulting discrete system with a Richardson iteration, the new method is equivalent to a parallel version of the nonlinear Robin method for the Richards equation proposed in [H. Berninger and O. Sander, Comput. Vis. Sci., 13 (2010), pp. 187--205]. We give numerical results for a problem with realistic soil parameters.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)A2166-A2198
FachzeitschriftSIAM Journal of Scientific Computing
Jahrgang36
Ausgabenummer5
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2014
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

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Scopus 84911446778
ORCID /0000-0003-1093-6374/work/142250576

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