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As part of the development of a Poisson solver for the spectral element discretization used in the GeoFluid Object Workbench (GeoFLOW) code, we propose a solver for the linear system arising from a Gauss-Legendre-Lobatto global spectral…

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We propose an Isogeometric approach for smoothing on surfaces, namely estimating a function starting from noisy and discrete measurements. More precisely, we aim at estimating functions lying on a surface represented by NURBS, which are…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-20 Matthieu Wilhelm , Luca Dedè , Laura M. Sangalli , Pierre Wilhelm

In this communication the advantages and drawbacks of the isogeometric analysis (IGA) are reviewed in the context of electromagnetic simulations. IGA extends the set of polynomial basis functions, commonly employed by the classical Finite…

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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…

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In this paper, we assess the performance of four iterative algorithms for solving non-symmetric rank-deficient linear systems arising in the FFT-based homogenization of heterogeneous materials defined by digital images. Our framework is…

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We improve the performance of multigrid solvers on many-core architectures with cache hierarchies by reorganizing operations in the smoothing step to minimize memory transfers. We focus on patch smoothers, which offer robust convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Michał Wichrowski , Peter Munch , Martin Kronbichler , Guido Kanschat

We investigate the isogeometric analysis for surface PDEs based on the extended Loop subdivision approach. The basis functions consisting of quartic box-splines corresponding to each subdivided control mesh are utilized to represent the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Qing Pan , Timon Rabczuk , Gang Xu , Chong Chen

We propose a sparse interpolation construction and a practical coarsening algorithm for the algebraic multigrid (AMG) method, tailored towards H(curl). Building on the generalized AMG framework, we introduce an interior/exterior splitting…

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Modularity is one of the most widely used quality measures for graph clusterings. Maximizing modularity is NP-hard, and the runtime of exact algorithms is prohibitive for large graphs. A simple and effective class of heuristics coarsens the…

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In this paper we analyze the convergence properties of two-level and W-cycle multigrid solvers for the numerical solution of the linear system of equations arising from hp-version symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Paola F. Antonietti , Paul Houston , Xiaozhe Hu , Marco Sarti , Marco Verani

Neumann series underlie both Krylov methods and algebraic multigrid smoothers. A low-synch modified Gram-Schmidt (MGS)-GMRES algorithm is described that employs a Neumann series to accelerate the projection step. A corollary to the backward…

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We present an isogeometric mortar method for the discretization of the biharmonic equation posed on multi-patch domains. We assume only $C^0$-conformity at interfaces and employs a mortar approach to weakly enforce $C^1$-continuity across…

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In this paper we consider a class of robust multilevel precontioners for the Helmholtz equation with high wave number. The key idea in this work is to use the continuous interior penalty finite element methods (CIP-FEM) studied in…

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In the present paper we concentrate on an important issue in constructing a good multigrid solver: the choice of an efficient smoother. We will introduce all-at-once multigrid solvers for optimal control problems which show robust…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Stefan Takacs

This paper is concerned with the construction of graded meshes for approximating so-called singular solutions of elliptic boundary value problems by means of multipatch discontinuous Galerkin Isogeometric Analysis schemes. Such solutions…

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We introduce a finite element method for numerical upscaling of second order elliptic equations with highly heterogeneous coefficients. The method is based on a mixed formulation of the problem and the concepts of the domain decomposition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Yalchin Efendiev , Raytcho Lazarov , Ke Shi

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

Multigrid methods are popular for solving linear systems derived from discretizing PDEs. Local Fourier Analysis (LFA) is a technique for investigating and tuning multigrid methods. P-multigrid is popular for high-order or spectral finite…

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