Truncated nonsmooth Newton multigrid for phase-field brittle-fracture problems, with analysis
Gräser C, Kienle D, Sander O (2023)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s00466-023-02330-x
Abstract
We propose the truncated nonsmooth Newton multigrid method (TNNMG) as a solver for the spatial problems of the small-strain brittle-fracture phase-field equations. TNNMG is a nonsmooth multigrid method that can solve biconvex, block-separably nonsmooth minimization problems with linear time complexity. It exploits the variational structure inherent in the problem, and handles the pointwise irreversibility constraint on the damage variable directly, without regularization or the introduction of a local history field. In the paper we introduce the method and show how it can be applied to several established models of phase-field brittle fracture. We then prove convergence of the solver to a solution of the nonsmooth Euler-Lagrange equations of the spatial problem for any load and initial iterate. On the way, we show several crucial convexity and regularity properties of the models considered here. Numerical comparisons to an operator-splitting algorithm show a considerable speed increase, without loss of robustness.
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Gräser, C., Kienle, D., & Sander, O. (2023). Truncated nonsmooth Newton multigrid for phase-field brittle-fracture problems, with analysis. Computational Mechanics. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00466-023-02330-x
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Gräser, Carsten, Daniel Kienle, and Oliver Sander. "Truncated nonsmooth Newton multigrid for phase-field brittle-fracture problems, with analysis." Computational Mechanics (2023).
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