Multigrid methods for unilateral contact problems with friction

Frédéric Lebon (1) , Michel Raous (1) , Iulian Rosu (1)

1 LMA - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille]

In this paper, multigrid methods are tested on unilateral problems with friction. An optimal strategy is presented and efficiency of the solver is discussed on several examples.

Mots clés: unilateral contact; friction; multigrid

Domaines: Mécanique des structures [physics.class-ph]; Mécanique des structures [physics.class-ph]

Frédéric Lebon, Michel Raous, Iulian Rosu. Multigrid methods for unilateral contact problems with friction. IUTAM-Symposium on Computational Methods in Contact Mechanics, Springer, pp.1-16, 2007, ⟨10.1007/978-1-4020-6405-0_1⟩. ⟨hal-00476788⟩