TY - GEN A1 - Bornemann, Folkmar A. T1 - An Adaptive Multilevel Approach to Parabolic Equations III. N2 - Part III of the paper is devoted to the construction of an adaptive FEM solver in two spatial dimensions, which is able to handle the singularly perturbed elliptic problems arising from discretization in time. The problems of error estimation and multilevel iterative solution of the linear systems - both uniformly well behaved with respect to the time step - can be solved simultaneously within the framework of preconditioning. A multilevel nodal basis preconditioner able to handle highly nonuniform meshes is derived. As a numerical example an application of the method to the bioheat-transfer equation is included. {\bf AMS CLASSIFICATION:} 65F10, 65F35, 65M50, 65M60, 65N30. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-91-01 Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-519 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bornemann, Folkmar A. T1 - A Sharpened Condition Number Estimate for the BPX Preconditioner of Elliptic Finite Element Problems on Highly Nonuniform Triangulations. N2 - In this paper it is shown that for highly nonuniformly refined triangulations the condition number of the BPX preconditioner for elliptic finite element problems grows at most linearly in the depth of refinement. This is achieved by viewing the computational available version of the BPX preconditioner as an abstract additive Schwarz method with exact solvers. {\bf AMS CLASSIFICATION:} 65F10, 65F35, 65N20, 65N30. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-91-09 Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-596 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Yserentant, Harry T1 - Two Preconditioners Based on the Multi-Level Splitting of Finite Element Spaces. N2 - The hierarchical basis preconditioner and the recent preconditioner of BRAMBLE, PASCIAK and XU are derived and analyzed within a joint framework. This discussion elucidates the close relationship between both methods. Special care is devoted to highly nonuniform meshes; our theory is based exclusively on local properties like the shape regularity of the finite elements. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-89-09 Y1 - 1989 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-274 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bank, Randolph A1 - Dupont, Todd F. A1 - Yserentant, Harry T1 - The Hierarchical Basis Multigrid Method. N2 - We derive and analyze the hierarchical basis-multigrid method for solving discretizations of self-adjoint, elliptic boundary value problems using piecewise linear triangular finite elements. The method is analyzed as a block symmetric Gauß- Seidel iteration with inner iterations, but it is strongly related to 2-level methods, to the standard multigrid V-cycle, and to earlier Jacobi-like hierarchical basis methods. The method is very robust, and has a nearly optimal convergence rate and work estimate. It is especially well suited to difficult problems with rough solutions, discretized using highly nonuniform, adaptively refined meshes. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-87-02 KW - hierarchical basis KW - multigrid KW - finite elements KW - adaptive mesh refinement KW - preconditioned conjugate gradient methods KW - symmetric Gauss-Seidel Y1 - 1987 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-44 ER -