• DOI:10.2172/1656938
• Corpus ID: 221340702

A general framework for substructuring-based domain decomposition methods for models having nonlocal interactions

@article{Capodaglio2020AGF,
  title={A general framework for substructuring-based domain decomposition methods for models having nonlocal interactions},
  author={Giacomo Capodaglio and Marta D'Elia and Max D. Gunzburger and Pavel B. Bochev and Manuel Klar and Christian Vollmann},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2008.11780}
}

• Giacomo Capodaglio, M. D'Elia, +3 authors Christian Vollmann
• Published 26 August 2020
• Computer Science
• ArXiv

A rigorous mathematical framework is provided for a substructuring-based domaindecomposition approach for nonlocal problems that feature interactions between points separated by a finite distance. Here, by substructuring it is meant that a traditional geometric configuration for local partial differential equation problems is used in which a computational domain is subdivided into non-overlapping subdomains. In the nonlocal setting, this approach is substructuring-based in the sense that those subdomains interact with neighboring domains over interface regions having finite volume, in contrast to the local PDE setting in which interfaces are lower dimensional manifolds separating abutting subdomains. Key results include the equivalence between the global, singledomain nonlocal problem and its multi-domain reformulation, both at the continuous and discrete levels. These results provide the rigorous foundation necessary for the development of efficient solution strategies for nonlocal domain-decomposition methods.