An Effective H2-LU Preconditioner for Iterative Solution of MQS Integral-Based Formulation P

Abstract

We present iterative solution strategies for solving efficiently Magneto-Quasi-Static (MQS) problems expressed in terms of an integral formulation based on the electric vector potential. Integral formulations give rise to discrete models characterized by linear systems with dense coefficient matrices. Iterative Krylov subspace methods combined with fast compression techniques for the matrix-vector product operation are the only viable approach for treating large scale problems, such as those considered in this study. We propose a fully algebraic preconditioning technique built upon the theory of H2-matrix representation that can be applied to different integral operators and to changes in the geometry, only by tuning a few parameters. Numerical experiments show that the proposed methodology performs much better than the existing one in terms of ability to reduce the number of iterations of a Krylov subspace method, especially for fast transient analysis.