This paper deals with solving sequences of nonsymmetric linear systems with a block structure arising from compressible flow problems. The systems are solved by a preconditioned iterative method. We attempt to improve the overall solution process by sharing a part of the computational effort throughout the sequence. Our approach is fully algebraic and it is based on updating preconditioners by a block triangular update. A particular update is computed in a black-box fashion from the known preconditioner of some of the previous matrices, and from the difference of involved matrices. Results of our test compressible flow problems show, that the strategy speeds up the entire computation. The acceleration is particularly important in phases of instationary behavior where we saved about half of the computational time in the supersonic and moderate Mach number cases. In the low Mach number case the updated decompositions were similarly effective as the frozen preconditioners.
Abstract. In [4], Guillard and Viozat propose a finite volume method for the simulation of inviscid steady as well as unsteady flows at low Mach numbers, based on a preconditioning technique. The scheme satisfies the results of a single scale asymptotic analysis in a discrete sense and comprises the advantage that this can be derived by a slight modification of the dissipation term within the numerical flux function. Unfortunately, it can be observed by numerical experiments that the preconditioned approach combined with an explicit time integration scheme turns out to be unstable if the time step ∆t does not satisfy the requirement to be O(M 2 ) as the Mach number M tends to zero, whereas the corresponding standard method remains stable up to ∆t = O(M ), M → 0, which results from the well-known CFL-condition.We present a comprehensive mathematical substantiation of this numerical phenomenon by means of a von Neumann stability analysis, which reveals that in contrast to the standard approach, the dissipation matrix of the preconditioned numerical flux function possesses an eigenvalue growing like M −2 as M tends to zero, thus causing the diminishment of the stability region of the explicit scheme. Thereby, we present statements for both the standard preconditioner used by Guillard and Viozat [4] and the more general one due to Turkel [21]. The theoretical results are after wards confirmed by numerical experiments.
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