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A fast multigrid solver is presented for high-order accurate Stokes problems discretised by local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods. The multigrid algorithm consists of a simple V-cycle, using an element-wise block Gauss-Seidel smoother.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Robert Saye

Uni- and bivariate data smoothing with spline functions is a well established method in nonparametric regression analysis. The extension to multivariate data is straightforward, but suffers from exponentially increasing memory and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Martin Siebenborn , Julian Wagner

We have developed an adaptive multigrid code for solving the Poisson equation in gravitational simulations. Finer rectangular subgrids are adaptively created in locations where the density exceeds a local level-dependent threshold. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Suisalu , E. Saar

Multigrid preconditioners and solvers for the indefinite Helmholtz equation suffer from non-stability of the stationary smoothers due to the indefinite spectrum of the operator. In this paper we explore GMRES as a replacement for the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose , Hisham bin Zubair

We present a comparison of different multigrid approaches for the solution of systems arising from high-order continuous finite element discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations on complex geometries. We consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Hari Sundar , Georg Stadler , George Biros

In this article we construct and analyze multigrid preconditioners for discretizations of operators of the form D+K* K, where D is the multiplication with a relatively smooth positive function and K is a compact linear operator. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Andrei Draganescu , Cosmin Petra

This paper proposes a novel Machine Learning-based approach to solve a Poisson problem with mixed boundary conditions. Leveraging Graph Neural Networks, we develop a model able to process unstructured grids with the advantage of enforcing…

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive convergence analysis of nonlinear AMLI-cycle multigrid method for symmetric positive definite problems. Based on classical assumptions for approximation and smoothing properties,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Xiaozhe Hu , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Jinchao Xu

Automatic segmentation of an image to identify all meaningful parts is one of the most challenging as well as useful tasks in a number of application areas. This is widely studied. Selective segmentation, less studied, aims to use limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Michael Roberts , Ke Chen , Klaus L. Irion

Multigrid methods are popular iterative methods for solving large-scale sparse systems of linear equations. We present a mixed precision formulation of the multigrid V-cycle with general assumptions on the finite precision errors coming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Petr Vacek , Hartwig Anzt , Erin Carson , Nils Kohl , Ulrich Rüde , Yu-Hsiang Tsai

In this article, we discuss several classes of Uzawa smoothers for the application in multigrid methods in the context of saddle point problems. Beside commonly used variants, such as the inexact and block factorization version, we also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Lorenz John , Ulrich Rüde , Barbara Wohlmuth , Walter Zulehner

This paper introduces a geometric multigrid preconditioner for the Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) designed to solve PDEs on complex geometries. While SBM simplifies mesh generation by using a non-conforming background grid, it often results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Michal Wichrowski

In the present paper we propose a coupled multigrid method for generalized Stokes flow problems. Such problems occur as subproblems in implicit time-stepping approaches for time-dependent Stokes problems. The discretized Stokes system is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Stefan Takacs

In this work, we propose an adaptive geometric multigrid method for the solution of large-scale finite cell flow problems. The finite cell method seeks to circumvent the need for a boundary-conforming mesh through the embedding of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 M. Saberi , A. Vogel

Despite hundreds of papers on preconditioned linear systems of equations, there remains a significant lack of comprehensive performance benchmarks comparing various preconditioners for solving symmetric positive definite (SPD) systems. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Marc A. Tunnell , David F. Gleich

Coupled multiphysics problems often give rise to interface conditions naturally formulated in fractional Sobolev spaces. Here, both positive- and negative fractionality are common. When designing efficient solvers for discretizations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Trygve Bærland , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal

We develop multilevel methods for interface-driven multiphysics problems that can be coupled across dimensions and where complexity and strength of the interface coupling deteriorates the performance of standard methods. We focus on solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Ana Budisa , Xiaozhe Hu , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov

In this work, an efficient blackbox-type multigrid method is proposed for solving multipoint flux approximations of the Darcy problem on logically rectangular grids. The approach is based on a cell-centered multigrid algorithm, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Andrés Arrarás , Francisco J. Gaspar , Laura Portero , Carmen Rodrigo

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Armando Coco , Giovanni Russo

The focus of this work is on the construction and analysis of optimal-order multigrid preconditioners to be used in the Newton-Krylov method for a distributed optimal control problem constrained by the stationary Navier-Stokes equations. As…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Ana Maria Soane , Andrei Draganescu