FETI-DPH: A dual-primal domain decomposition method for acoustic scattering

A dual-primal variant of the FETI-H domain decomposition method is designed for the fast, parallel, iterative solution of large-scale systems of complex equations arising from the discretization of acoustic scattering problems formulated in bounded computational domains. The convergence of this iterative solution method, named here FETI-DPH, is shown to scale with the problem size, the number of subdomains, and the wave number. Its solution time is also shown to scale with the problem size. CPU performance results obtained for the acoustic signature analysis in the mid-frequency regime of mockup submarines reveal that the proposed FETI-DPH solver is significantly faster than the previous generation FETI-H solution algorithm.