L. Champaney et al., LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS ON PARALLEL COMPUTERS OF A MIXED DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHOD, Computational mechanics, 19(4), 1997, pp. 253-263
A strategy using a mixed domain decomposition technique is discussed i
n the case of problems involving a large number of degrees of freedom.
The implementation, on parallel computers, of this ''mechanical'' str
ategy which splits the structure into substructures and interfaces is
presented. Several industrial-type examples, in the case of elastic be
haviour and frictional contact, show the interesting features and the
capabilities of such an approach. The numerical behaviour on different
computers of the iterative procedure and comparisons with the direct
resolution method are also presented.