Variants of the PSS preconditioner for generalized saddle point problems from the Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

In this paper, a class of new preconditioners based on matrix splitting are presented for generalized saddle-point linear systems, which can be viewed as further modified improvements of some recently published preconditioners. Moreover, we widen the scope of the new preconditioners to solve the more general but rarely considered saddle-point linear systems with singular leading blocks and rank-deficient off-diagonal blocks. The new variants can result in much better convergence properties and spectrum distributions than the original existing preconditioners. Numerical experiments are used to illustrate the efficiency of the new proposed preconditioners.