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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

Conforming hexahedral (hex) meshes are favored in simulation for their superior numerical properties, yet automatically decomposing a general 3D volume into a conforming hex mesh remains a formidable challenge. Among existing approaches,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hua Tong , Yongjie Jessica Zhang

In this paper, a new iterative two-level algorithm is presented for solving the finite element discretization for nonsymmetric or indefinite elliptic problems. The iterative two-level algorithm uses the same coarse space as the traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Ming Tang , Xiaoqing Xing , Ying Yang , Liuqiang Zhong

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

In the context of unfitted finite element discretizations the realization of high order methods is challenging due to the fact that the geometry approximation has to be sufficiently accurate. We consider a new unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

We present a multigrid algorithm for the solution of the linear systems of equations stemming from the $p-$version of the Virtual Element discretization of a two-dimensional Poisson problem. The sequence of coarse spaces are constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 P. F. Antonietti , L. Mascotto , M. Verani

Some methods based on simple regularizing geometric element transformations have heuristically been shown to give runtime efficient and quality effective smoothing algorithms for meshes. We describe the mathematical framework and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Dimitris Vartziotis , Benjamin Himpel

We propose a general algorithm for non-conforming adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of unstructured meshes in high-order finite element codes. Our focus is on h-refinement with a fixed polynomial order. The algorithm handles triangular,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jakub Červený , Veselin Dobrev , Tzanio Kolev

Immersed finite element methods have been developed as a means to circumvent the costly mesh generation required in conventional finite element analysis. However, the numerical ill-conditioning of the resultant linear system of equations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 S. Saberi , G. Meschke , A. Vogel

Adaptive meshing is a fundamental component of adaptive finite element methods. This includes refining and coarsening meshes locally. In this work, we are concerned with the red-green-blue refinement strategy in two dimensions and its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Stefan A. Funken , Anja Schmidt

In this work, we bridge standard adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening on scalable octree background meshes and robust unfitted finite element formulations for the automatic and efficient solution of large-scale nonlinear solid mechanics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Santiago Badia , Manuel Caicedo , Alberto F. Martín , Javier Principe

In this paper a local Fourier analysis for multigrid methods on tetrahedral grids is presented. Different smoothers for the discretization of the Laplace operator by linear finite elements on such grids are analyzed. A four-color smoother…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-10-28 B. Gmeiner , T. Gradl , F. Gaspar , U. Rüde

In this paper we construct and analyse a level-dependent coarsegrid correction scheme for indefinite Helmholtz problems. This adapted multigrid method is capable of solving the Helmholtz equation on the finest grid using a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-09 Siegfried Cools , Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose

In this paper, the authors constructed an auxiliary space multigrid preconditioner for the weak Galerkin finite element method for second-order diffusion equations, discretized on simplicial 2D or 3D meshes. The idea of the auxiliary space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Long Chen , Junping Wang , Yanqiu Wang , Xiu Ye

We present a novel approach that integrates unfitted finite element methods and neural networks to approximate partial differential equations on complex geometries. Easy-to-generate background meshes (e.g., a simple Cartesian mesh) that cut…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Wei Li , Alberto F. Martín , Santiago Badia

We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Thomas Führer , Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

In this work, we consider the modeling of inclusions in the material using an unfitted finite element method. In the unfitted methods, structured background meshes are used and only the underlying finite element space is modified to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Hardik Kothari , Rolf Krause

We propose some multigrid methods for solving the algebraic systems resulting from finite element approximations of space fractional partial differential equations (SFPDEs). It is shown that our multigrid methods are optimal, which means…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Yingjun Jiang , Xuejun Xu

Multigrid methods have proven to be an invaluable tool to efficiently solve large sparse linear systems arising in the discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs). Algebraic multigrid methods and in particular adaptive algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Hanno Gottschalk , Karsten Kahl

We propose a multiscale approach for an elliptic multiscale setting with general unstructured diffusion coefficients that is able to achieve high-order convergence rates with respect to the mesh parameter and the polynomial degree. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Roland Maier