A note on the discrete Unmapped Tent Pitching for the heterogeneous wave equation

Abstract

The Unmapped Tent Pitching (UTP) algorithm is a space-time domain decomposition method for the parallel solution of wave-type problems. We have recently extended UTP to heterogeneous settings and compared, at the continuous level, the computational cost of different space-time decompositions. In this note, we report discrete-level observations showing that the optimal decomposition strategy may differ from the one predicted by the continuous analysis.