Dual-primal FETI algorithms for edge finite-element approximations in 3D

^** Email: toselli{at}sam.math.ethz.ch A family of dual-primal finite-element tearing and interconnectingmethods for edge-element approximations in 3D is proposed andanalysed. The key part of this work relies on the observationthat for these finite-element spaces there is a strong couplingbetween degrees of freedom associated with subdomain edges andfaces and a local change of basis is therefore necessary. Theprimal constraints are associated with subdomain edges. We proposethree methods. They ensure a condition number that is independentof the number of substructures and possibly large jumps of oneof the coefficients of the original problem, and only dependson the number of unknowns associated with a single substructure,as for the corresponding methods for continuous nodal elements.A polylogarithmic dependence is shown for two algorithms. Numericalresults validating our theoretical bounds are given.