Title: Preconditioning discrete approximations of the Reissner-Mindlin plate model Authors: D. N. Arnold, R. S. Falk, and R. Winther. Source: In P. Bjørstad, M. Espedal, and D. Keyes, editors, Ninth International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, pages 215-221,. DDM.org, 1996 Abstract: We consider iterative methods for the solution of linear systems of equations arising from mixed finite element discretization of the Reissner-Mindlin plate model. We show how to construct symmetric positive definite block diagonal preconditioners for these indefinite systems such that the resulting systems have spectral condition numbers independent of both the mesh size h and the plate thickness t. Keywords: preconditioner, Reissner, Mindlin, plate, finite element URL: http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~falk/papers/prermdd9.pdf