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Given a multigrid procedure for linear systems with coefficient matrices $A_n$, we discuss the optimality of a related multigrid procedure with the same smoother and the same projector, when applied to properly related algebraic problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-03 Stefano Serra-Capizzano , Cristina Tablino Possio

We introduce a geometric multigrid method for solving linear systems arising from variational problems on surfaces in geometry processing, Gravo MG. Our scheme uses point clouds as a reduced representation of the levels of the multigrid…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Ruben Wiersma , Ahmad Nasikun , Elmar Eisemann , Klaus Hildebrandt

We present evidence that multigrid (MG) works for wave equations in disordered systems, e.g. in the presence of gauge fields, no matter how strong the disorder. We introduce a "neural computations" point of view into large scale…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Baeker , G. Mack , M. Speh

This paper tests a dielectric model for variation of hydration free energy with geometry of complex solutes in water. It works out some basic aspects of the theory of boundary integral methods for these problems. One aspect of the…

chem-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 L. R. Pratt , G. J. Tawa , G. Hummer , A. E. Garcia , S. A. Corcelli

The dual formulation for linear elasticity, in contrast to the primal formulation, is not affected by locking, as it is based on the stresses as main unknowns. Thus it is quite attractive for nearly incompressible and incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Gabriele Rovi , Rolf Krause

We present a GPU implementation of vertex-patch smoothers for higher order finite element methods in two and three dimensions. Analysis shows that they are not memory bound with respect to GPU DRAM, but with respect to on-chip scratchpad…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Cu Cui , Paul Grosse-Bley , Guido Kanschat , Robert Strzodka

A well-known strategy for building effective preconditioners for higher-order discretizations of some PDEs, such as Poisson's equation, is to leverage effective preconditioners for their low-order analogs. In this work, we show that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Alexey Voronin , Yunhui He , Scott MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Ray Tuminaro

This study presents a fair performance comparison of the continuous finite element method, the symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method, and the hybridized discontinuous Galerkin method. Modern implementations of high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a widely used approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Although explicit versions of the IB method can suffer from severe time step size restrictions, these methods remain popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams , Robert D. Guy , Boyce E. Griffith

Simulation of multiphase poromechanics involves solving a multi-physics problem in which multiphase flow and transport are tightly coupled with the porous medium deformation. To capture this dynamic interplay, fully implicit methods, also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Quan M. Bui , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor , Nicola Castelletto , Joshua A. White

In this work we construct multigrid preconditioners to accelerate the solution process of a linear-quadratic optimal control problem constrained by the Stokes system. The first order optimality conditions of the control problem form a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-13 Andrei Draganescu , Ana Maria Soane

In this work we extend the shifted Laplacian approach to the elastic Helmholtz equation. The shifted Laplacian multigrid method is a common preconditioning approach for the discretized acoustic Helmholtz equation. In some cases, like…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Eran Treister , Rachel Yovel

This paper presents a large-scale parallel solver, specifically designed to tackle the challenges of solving high-dimensional and high-contrast linear systems in heat transfer topology optimization. The solver incorporates an interpolation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Yingjie Zhou , Changqing Ye , Yucheng Liu , Shubin Fu , Eric T. Chung

The multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer grid scales, resulting in faster convergence compared to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Francisco Holguin , GS Sidharth , Gavin Portwood

We consider discontinuous Galerkin methods for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem constrained by a convection-dominated problem. We prove global optimal convergence rates using an inf-sup condition, with the diffusion parameter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Sijing Liu , Valeria Simoncini

The present work develops hybrid multigrid methods for high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Fast matrix-free operator evaluation on tensor product elements is used to devise a computationally efficient PDE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

An efficient linear solver plays an important role while solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and partial integro-differential equations (PIDEs) type mathematical models. In most cases, the efficiency depends on the stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Samir Kumar Bhowmik

Solving systems of linear equations is a problem occuring frequently in water engineering applications. Usually the size of the problem is too large to be solved via direct factorization. One can resort to iterative approaches, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Johannes Sappl , Laurent Seiler , Matthias Harders , Wolfgang Rauch

A multiscale optimization framework for problems over a space of Lipschitz continuous functions is developed. The method solves a coarse-grid discretization followed by linear interpolation to warm-start project gradient descent on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nicholas J. E. Richardson , Noah Marusenko , Michael P. Friedlander

We present a multigrid based eigensolver for computing low-modes of the Hermitian Wilson Dirac operator. For the non-Hermitian case multigrid methods have already replaced conventional Krylov subspace solvers in many lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-24 Gunnar Bali , Sara Collins , Andreas Frommer , Karsten Kahl , Issaku Kanamori , Benjamin Müller , Matthias Rottmann , Jakob Simeth