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In the present paper we concentrate on an important issue in constructing a good multigrid solver: the choice of an efficient smoother. We will introduce all-at-once multigrid solvers for optimal control problems which show robust…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Stefan Takacs

The first order condition of the constrained minimization problem leads to a saddle point problem. A multigrid method using a multiplicative Schwarz smoother for saddle point problems can thus be interpreted as a successive subspace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Long Chen

We provide an alternative Fourier analysis for multigrid applied to the Poisson problem in 1D, based on explicit derivation of spectra of the iteration matrix. The new Fourier analysis has advantages over the existing one. It is easy to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Adem Kaya

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

The convergence of multigrid methods degrades significantly if a small number of low quality cells are present in a finite element mesh, and this can be a barrier to the efficient and robust application of multigrid on complicated geometric…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yuxuan Chen , Garth N. Wells

We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kai Weixian Lan , Elias Gueidon , Ayano Kaneda , Julian Panetta , Joseph Teran

A method is presented to include irregular domain boundaries in a geometric multigrid solver. Dirichlet boundary conditions can be imposed on an irregular boundary defined by a level set function. Our implementation employs quadtree/octree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Jannis Teunissen , Francesca Schiavello

This work presents a multigrid preconditioned high order immersed finite difference solver to accurately and efficiently solve the Poisson equation on complex 2D and 3D domains. The solver employs a low order Shortley-Weller multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-31 James Gabbard , Andrea Paris , Wim M. van Rees

An efficient nonlinear multigrid method for a mixed finite element method of the Darcy-Forchheimer model is constructed in this paper. A Peaceman-Rachford type iteration is used as a smoother to decouple the nonlinearity from the divergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Jian Huang , Long Chen , Hongxing Rui

The solution to the Poisson equation arising from the spectral element discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation requires robust preconditioning strategies. One such strategy is multigrid. To realize the potential of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Malachi Phillips , Paul Fischer

It is shown how various ideas that are well established for the solution of Poisson's equation using plane wave and multigrid methods can be combined with wavelet concepts. The combination of wavelet concepts and multigrid techniques turns…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Goedecker

The problem of finding the solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) plays a central role in modeling real world problems. Over the past years, Multigrid solvers have showed their robustness over other techniques, due to its high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Safaa Kasbah , Issam Damaj , Ramzi Haraty

Multigrid solvers are among the most efficient methods for solving the Poisson equation, which is ubiquitous in computational physics. For example, in the context of incompressible flows, it is typically the costliest operation. The present…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Gilles Poncelet , Jonathan Lambrechts , Thomas Gillis , Philippe Chatelain

Numerical solution of discrete PDEs corresponding to saddle point problems is highly relevant to physical systems such as Stokes flow. However, scaling up numerical solvers for such systems is often met with challenges in efficiency and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Yutian Tao , Eftychios Sifakis

This article is concerned with the question of constructing effcient multigrid preconditioners for the linear systems arising when applying semismooth Newton methods to large-scale linear-quadratic optimization problems constrained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-08 Andrei Draganescu

The goal of this primer is to provide a relatively short exposition of the basics of multigrid methods, simplified by focusing on fundamental concepts in a variational setting. This is done by way of a quadratic energy minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Stephen F. McCormick , Rasmus Tamstorf

Divergence constraints are present in the governing equations of numerous physical phenomena, and they usually lead to a Poisson equation whose solution represents a bottleneck in many simulation codes. Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) is arguably…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Àdel Alsalti-Baldellou , Carlo Janna , Xavier Álvarez-Farré , F. Xavier Trias

We discuss the ill conditioning of the matrix for the discretised Poisson equation in the small aspect ratio limit, and motivate this problem in the context of nonhydrostatic ocean modelling. Efficient iterative solvers for the Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 S. C. Kramer , C. J. Cotter , C. C. Pain

We propose an adaptive multigrid preconditioning technology for solving linear systems arising from Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations. Unlike standard multigrid techniques, this preconditioner involves only trace spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

Many subsurface engineering applications involve tight-coupling between fluid flow, solid deformation, fracturing, and similar processes. To better understand the complex interplay of different governing equations, and therefore design…

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