TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a local parallel finite element algorithm based on fully overlapping domain decomposition technique to solve the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations.Design/methodology/approach The algorithm uses a lower-order element pair to compute an initial approximation by the Oseen-type iteration and uses a higher-order element pair to solve a linear system in each processor.Findings Besides, the convergence analysis of local parallel finite element algorithm is given. Finally, numerical experiments are presented to verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.Originality/value Compared with the numerical solution of the common two-step method, this method is easy to realize and can produce a more accurate solution. And, this approach is executed in parallel, so it saves a lot of computational time. VL - 29 IS - 8 SN - 0961-5539 DO - 10.1108/HFF-10-2018-0552 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-10-2018-0552 AU - Ping Yuan AU - Su Haiyan AU - Feng Xinlong PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/01/01 TI - Parallel two-step finite element algorithm for the stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations T2 - International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 2709 EP - 2727 Y2 - 2024/09/21 ER -