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Simple Preconditioner for a Thin Membrane Diffusion Problem

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A diffusion through a thin membrane problem discussed in [13] is discretized with a variant of the composite h-p discontinuous Galerkin method. A preconditioner based on the additive Schwarz method is introduced, and its convergence properties are investigated in numerical experiments.

This research has been partially supported by the Polish National Science Centre grant 2016/21/B/ST1/00350.

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The author would like to thank two anonymous referees whose comments and remarks helped to improve the paper. This research has been partially supported by the Polish National Science Centre grant 2016/21/B/ST1/00350.

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Krzyżanowski, P. (2020). Simple Preconditioner for a Thin Membrane Diffusion Problem. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Deelman, E., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12044. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43222-5_23

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