Combining Nonlinear FETI-DP Methods and Quasi-Newton Methods using an SQP Approach

Abstract: The combination of nonlinear FETI-DP (Dual Primal Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting) and Quasi-Newton methods using a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) approach is considered. Nonlinear FETI-DP methods are parallel iterative solution methods for nonlinear finite element problems, based on divide and conquer, using Lagrange multipliers. In the method, we use Quasi-Newton approximations of Hessian for the quadratic programs, where the initial approximation uses the exact Hessian. To accelerate the convergence, we recompute the initial Hessian and restart the Quasi-Newton approximation. We provide numerical experiments using homogeneous model problems from nonlinear structural mechanics.