
98Decomposition Methods for Differential Equations Theory and Applications
to each operator that is, A|
Ω
i
,B|
Ω
i
with i =1, 2fortwosubdomains. The
coupling is done at the intermediate boundaries
Ω
1
∩ Ω
2
=Γ
Ω
1
,Ω
2
(Ω
1,2
= ∅,
i.e. mass zero, see [179]) for the nonoverlapping method or at the overlapping
set (Ω
1,2
= ∅, i.e., of mass 1, see [179]) for the overlapping method. The
overlaps are presented in Figure 5.1.
Ω
1
Ω
2
Ω
1
Ω
2
Overlapping
Nonoverlapping
FIGURE 5.1: Graphical visualization of the overlaps.
REMARK 5.1 We extend the splitting method with respect to the
underlying spatial discretized operators. For each subdomain, we redefine the
corresponding operators into the subdomain.
5.1.1 The Nonoverlapping Spatiotemporal Iterative
Splitting Method
For the semi-discretization in space, we introduce the variable k as the
node for the point x
k
, and we have k ∈{0,...,p},wherep is the number of
nodes. We concentrate on the one-dimensional nonoverlapping case. For the
nonoverlapping case we assume the decomposition in space, where Ω
1
consists
of the points 0,...,p/2, and Ω
2
consists of p/2+1,...,p, whereby we assume
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