Coupling deal.II and FROSch: A Sustainable and Accessible (O)RAS Preconditioner

In this work, restricted additive Schwarz (RAS) and optimized restricted additive Schwarz (ORAS) preconditioners from the Trilinos package FROSch (Fast and Robust Overlapping Schwarz) are employed to solve model problems implemented using deal.II (differential equations analysis library). Therefore, a Tpetra-based interface for coupling deal.II and FROSch is implemented. While RAS preconditioners have been available before, ORAS preconditioners have been newly added to FROSch. The deal.II–FROSch interface works for both Lagrange-based and Nédélec finite elements. Here, as model problems, nonstationary, nonlinear, variational-monolithic fluid-structure interaction and the indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell’s equations are considered. Several numerical experiments in two and three spatial dimensions confirm the performance of the preconditioners as well as the FROSch-deal.II interface. In conclusion, the overall software interface is straightforward and easy to use while giving satisfactory solver performances for challenging PDE systems.