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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

We propose a path cover adaptive algebraic multigrid (PC-$\alpha$AMG) method for solving linear systems of weighted graph Laplacians and can also be applied to discretized second order elliptic partial differential equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Xiaozhe Hu , Junyuan Lin , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

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

This paper explores the application of kernel learning methods for parameter prediction and evaluation in the Algebraic Multigrid Method (AMG), focusing on several Partial Differential Equation (PDE) problems. AMG is an efficient iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Junyue Luo , Xiaoqiang Yue , Fangfang Zhang , Juan Zhang

In this paper we motivate, discuss the implementation and present the resulting numerics for a new definition of strength of connection which is based on the notion of algebraic distance. This algebraic distance measure, combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 A. Brandt , J. Brannick , K. Kahl , I. Livshits

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is one of the most efficient iterative methods for solving large sparse system of equations. However, how to build/check restriction and prolongation operators in practical of AMG methods for nonsymmetric {\em…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Minghua Chen , Rongjun Cao , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White

Laplacian matrices of graphs arise in large-scale computational applications such as semi-supervised machine learning; spectral clustering of images, genetic data and web pages; transportation network flows; electrical resistor circuits;…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Oren E. Livne , Achi Brandt

A type of parallel augmented subspace scheme for eigenvalue problems is proposed by using coarse space in the multigrid method. With the help of coarse space in multigrid method, solving the eigenvalue problem in the finest space is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Fei Xu , Hehu Xie , Ning Zhang

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

This paper introduces a material-aware strength-of-connection measure for smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid methods, aimed at improving robustness for scalar partial differential equations with heterogeneous and anisotropic material…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Max Firmbach , Malachi Phillips , Christian Glusa , Alexander Popp , Christopher M. Siefert , Matthias Mayr

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

The numerical simulation of structural mechanics applications via finite elements usually requires the solution of large-size and ill-conditioned linear systems, especially when accurate results are sought for derived variables interpolated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Andrea Franceschini , Victor A. Paludetto Magri , Gianluca Mazzucco , Nicolò Spiezia , Carlo Janna

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 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

We construct an algebraic multigrid (AMG) based preconditioner for the reduced Hessian of a linear-quadratic optimization problem constrained by an elliptic partial differential equation. While the preconditioner generalizes a geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Andrew T. Barker , Andrei Draganescu

Presented in this paper is a new sparse linear solver methodology motivated by multigrid principles and based around general local transformations that diagonalize a matrix while maintaining its sparsity. These transformations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan E. Moussa

The bootstrap algebraic multigrid framework allows for the adaptive construction of algebraic multigrid methods in situations where geometric multigrid methods are not known or not available at all. While there has been some work on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Karsten Kahl , Matthias Rottmann

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

Isogeometric analysis (IgA) offers enhanced approximation capabilities for the discretization of elliptic boundary-value problems, yet it results in large, sparse, and increasingly ill-conditioned linear systems due to higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone