In [11] subdomain problems are assumed to be solved accurately so that is the exact inverse of the block diagonal or block lower-triangular matrix of A, so
with the Gauss-Seidel version and the Jacobi version of N. The Gauss-Seidel version is suitable for implementation on a single processor and leads to the sequential or multiplicative algorithm. The Jacobi version is suitable for parallelization and is called the parallel or additive version.
It can be seen from Figure 2 and 3 that the left-hand side of (10) only depends on the values of in regions and in Figure 3. The unknowns u are ordered in such a way that , where v are the interface unknowns (regions , ), and w are remaining unknowns. We have
with an injection operator such that . By substituting (16) into (10) and by premultiplying with we get
Since we are interested in the stationary solution v of (17) we get
which is equivalent to
In this way, accurate solution of subdomain problems finally leads to a system involving only the interface equations. Accelerated domain decomposition in [11] amounts to solving the interface equations (19) using GMRESR [46]. In the present paper, we use GMRES: the required matrix-vector product can be computed by doing one domain decomposition iteration, see [11] for details.