An Algebraic Approach to the Schwarz Alternating Methods

Abstract:

      In this paper, the choice of the optimal parameters for a relaxation additive Schwarz alternating method in two subregions case is obtained by an algebraic method, which shows that the arithmetic average is the best. A counterexample illustrates that the same result is not true for many subregions case. In the last, this technique is applied to demonstrate some well known results simply and intuitively.