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CSETS: 1
INNOVATIVE COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Edited by: M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping
Chapter 6

Parallel Solution Techniques for Hybrid Mixed Finite Element Models

I. Cismasiu+, J.P. Moitinho de Almeida+, L.M.S. Castro+ and D.C. Harbis*

+Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
*Institute of Structural Analysis and Seismic Research, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Full Bibliographic Reference for this chapter
I. Cismasiu, J.P. Moitinho de Almeida, L.M.S. Castro, D.C. Harbis, "Parallel Solution Techniques for Hybrid Mixed Finite Element Models", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Innovative Computational Methods for Structural Mechanics", Saxe-Coburg Publications, Stirlingshire, UK, Chapter 6, pp 109-126, 1999. doi:10.4203/csets.1.6
Abstract
This paper presents an implementation of a parallel environment for the solution of large non-conventional finite element systems. A topological data structure is used to define the finite element discretisation. The procedures previously developed for sequential processing are used to compute the coefficients of the matrices involved. Alternative variants of the CG algorithm for the solution of the linear system are tested and compared.

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