(1) Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 305 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA;(2) Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, MS 321, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA
Abstract:
We present an effective preconditioning technique for solving the nonsymmetric linear systems encountered in computation of incompressible flows in long domains. The application category we focus on is arterial fluid mechanics. These linear systems are solved using a nested iterative scheme with an outer Richardson scheme and an inner iteration that is handled via a Krylov subspace method. Test computations that demonstrate the robustness of our nested scheme are presented.