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GPU Accelerated Explicit Time Integration Methods for Electro-Quasistatic Fields
Electro-quasistatic field problems involving nonlinear materials are commonly
discretized in space using finite elements. In this paper, it is proposed to
solve the resulting system of ordinary differential equations by an explicit
Runge-Kutta-Chebyshev time-integration scheme. This mitigates the need for
Newton-Raphson iterations, as they are necessary within fully implicit time
integration schemes. However, the electro-quasistatic system of ordinary
differential equations has a Laplace-type mass matrix such that parts of the
explicit time-integration scheme remain implicit. An iterative solver with
constant preconditioner is shown to efficiently solve the resulting multiple
right-hand side problem. This approach allows an efficient parallel
implementation on a system featuring multiple graphic processing units.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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