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A Finite Difference Ghost-Cell Multigrid Approach for Poisson Equation with Mixed Boundary Conditions in Arbitrary Domain

Numerical Analysis 2011-11-07 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we present a multigrid approach to solve the Poisson equation in arbitrary domain (identified by a level set function) and mixed boundary conditions. The discretization is based on finite difference scheme and ghost-cell method. This multigrid strategy can be applied also to more general problems where a non-eliminated boundary condition approach is used. Arbitrary domain make the definition of the restriction operator for boundary conditions hard to find. A suitable restriction operator is provided in this work, together with a proper treatment of the boundary smoothing, in order to avoid degradation of the convergence factor of the multigrid due to boundary effects. Several numerical tests confirm the good convergence property of the new method.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0983,
  title  = {A Finite Difference Ghost-Cell Multigrid Approach for Poisson Equation with Mixed Boundary Conditions in Arbitrary Domain},
  author = {Armando Coco and Giovanni Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0983},
  year   = {2011}
}