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A multigrid method is proposed in this paper to solve eigenvalue problems by the finite element method based on the shifted-inverse power iteration technique. With this scheme, solving eigenvalue problem is transformed to a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Hongtao Chen , Yunhui He , Yu Li , Hehu Xie

Fully realizing the potential of multigrid solvers often requires custom algorithms for a given application model, discretizations and even regimes of interest, despite considerable effort from the applied math community to develop fully…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Mark F. Adams , Matthew K. Knepley

We consider the solution of elliptic problems on the tensor product of two physical domains as e.g. present in the approximation of the solution covariance of elliptic partial differential equations with random input. Previous sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Helmut Harbrecht , Peter Zaspel

This paper develops a new algebraic multigrid (AMG) method for sparse least-squares systems of the form $A=G^TG$ motivated by challenging applications in scientific computing where classical AMG methods fail. First we review and relate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Ben S. Southworth , Hussam Al Daas , Golo A. Wimmer , Ed Threlfall

Iterative multiscale methods for electronic structure calculations offer several advantages for large-scale problems. Here we examine a nonlinear full approximation scheme (FAS) multigrid method for solving fixed potential and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Nimal Wijesekera , Guogang Feng , Thomas L. Beck

We consider geometric multigrid methods for the solution of linear systems arising from isogeometric discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations. For classical finite elements, such methods are well known to be fast solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Clemens Hofreither , Stefan Takacs , Walter Zulehner

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is often an effective solver for symmetric positive definite (SPD) linear systems resulting from the discretization of general elliptic PDEs, or the spatial discretization of parabolic PDEs. However, convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Thomas A. Manteuffel , Steffen Munzenmaier , John Ruge , Ben S. Southworth

In this paper, a novel multigrid method based on Newton iteration is proposed to solve nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Instead of handling the eigenvalue $\lambda$ and eigenfunction $u$ separately, we treat the eigenpair $(\lambda, u)$ as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Fei Xu , Manting Xie , Meiling Yue

We propose a data-driven and machine-learning-based approach to compute non-Galerkin coarse-grid operators in algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods, addressing the well-known issue of increasing operator complexity. Guided by the AMG theory on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Ru Huang , Kai Chang , Huan He , Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi

Many problems in computational science and engineering involve partial differential equations and thus require the numerical solution of large, sparse (non)linear systems of equations. Multigrid is known to be one of the most efficient…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Harald Koestler , Christian Schmitt , Sebastian Kuckuk , Frank Hannig , Juergen Teich , Ulrich Ruede

We design and implement a parallel algebraic multigrid method for isotropic graph Laplacian problems on multicore Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). The proposed AMG method is based on the aggregation framework. The setup phase of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-12 James Brannick , Yao Chen , Xiaozhe Hu , Ludmil Zikatanov

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

The computation of stationary distributions of Markov chains is an important task in the simulation of stochastic models. The linear systems arising in such applications involve non-symmetric M-matrices, making algebraic multigrid methods a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 James Brannick , Karsten Kahl , Sonja Sokolovic

We combine the multigrid (MG) method with state-of-the-art concepts from the variational formulation of the numerical renormalization group. The resulting MG renormalization (MGR) method is a natural generalization of the MG method for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Michael Lubasch , Pierre Moinier , Dieter Jaksch

In this paper, we discuss approximating the eigenvalue problem of biharmonic equation. We first present an equivalent mixed formulation which admits amiable nested discretization. Then, we construct multi-level finite element schemes by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Shuo Zhang , Yingxia Xi , Xia Ji

We investigate the performance of algebraic multigrid methods for the solution of the linear system of equations arising from a Virtual Element discretization. We provide numerical experiments on very general polygonal meshes for a model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Daniele Prada , Micol Pennacchio

This paper presents a new fast iterative solver for large systems involving kernel matrices. Advantageous aspects of H2 matrix approximations and the multigrid method are hybridized to create the H2-MG algorithm. This combination provides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Daria Sushnikova , George Turkiyyah , Edmond Chow , David Keyes

We propose a new and simple discretization, named the Modified Virtual Grid Difference (MVGD), for numerical approximation of the Laplace-Beltrami (LB) operator on manifolds sampled by point clouds. The key observation is that both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Meng Wang , Shingyu Leung , Hongkai Zhao

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is one of the most widely used solution techniques for linear systems of equations arising from discretized partial differential equations. The popularity of AMG stems from its potential to solve linear systems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Carlo Janna , Andrea Franceschini , Jacob B. Schroder , Luke Olson

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