GPU Accelerated Explicit Time Integration Methods for Electro-Quasistatic Fields

Abstract: 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.