Iterative Substructuring for Hypersingular Integral Equations in R³

Norbert Heuer, Ernst P. Stephan
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 20 (2), 739-749, 1999.

Abstract
We study a preconditioner for the h-version of the boundary element method for hypersingular integral equations in three dimensions. Our preconditioner is based on iterative substructuring which forms an important part of the domain decomposition technique. We prove a bound for the improved condition numbers which behaves polylogarithmically in H/h. Here H is the size of the subdomains and h is the size of the elements used to construct the boundary element spaces. Numerical results which support our theory are reported.