Parallel fully coupled Schwarz preconditioners for saddle point problems.
PERMON (Parallel, Efficient, Robust, Modular, Object-oriented, Numerical) is a newly emerging collection of software libraries, uniquely combining Quadratic Programming (QP) algorithms and Domain Decomposition Methods (DDM). Among the main applications are contact problems of mechanics. This paper gives an overview of PERMON and selected ingredients improving scalability, demonstrated by numerical experiments.
Penalty methods, augmented Lagrangian methods and Nitsche mortaring are well known numerical methods among the specialists in the related areas optimization and finite elements, respectively, but common aspects are rarely available. The aim of the present paper is to describe these methods from a unifying optimization perspective and to highlight some common features of them.