Date of Award

Fall 2016

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Committee Director

Duc Nguyen

Committee Director

ManWo Ng

Committee Member

Mecit Cetin

Committee Member

Gene Hou

Abstract

Domain decomposition is a divide-and-conquer strategy. In the first part of this dissertation, a new/simple/efficient domain decomposition partitioning algorithm is proposed to break a large domain into smaller sub-domains, in such a way as to minimize the number of system boundary nodes and to balance the work load for each sub-domain. This new domain decomposition algorithm is based on the network’s shortest path solution. Numerical results indicate that the new Shortest Distance Decomposition Algorithm outperformed the most widely used METIS algorithm in 21 out of 27 tested (transportation) examples. In the second part of this dissertation, another new/simple and highly efficient shortest path algorithm is described for finding the shortest path from all-to-all (all source nodes to all destination nodes). This new Domain Decomposition-based Shortest Path algorithm basically finds the SP from all-to-all for each sub-domain, and assembles each sub-domains’ shortest path solution to correctly obtain the original (un-partitioned) network’s shortest path solution. Numerical results for real-life transportation networks have shown that the algorithm is much faster than the existing Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm. Finally, the Shortest Distance Decomposition Algorithm has also been shown to perform better than METIS when minimizing the non-zero fill-in terms of structural engineering stiffness matrices used during the finite element simultaneous linear equation solution process.

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DOI

10.25777/h2zk-9h76

ISBN

9781369538441

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