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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

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods are often robust and effective solvers for solving the large and sparse linear systems that arise from discretized PDEs and other problems, relying on heuristic graph algorithms to achieve their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Tareq Zaman , Nicolas Nytko , Ali Taghibakhshi , Scott MacLachlan , Luke Olson , Matthew West

Multigrid methods are asymptotically optimal algorithms ideal for large-scale simulations. But, they require making numerous algorithmic choices that significantly influence their efficiency. Unlike recent approaches that learn optimal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Dinesh Parthasarathy , Tommaso Bevilacqua , Martin Lanser , Axel Klawonn , Harald Köstler

We propose a quality-based optimization strategy to reduce the total number of degrees of freedom associated to a discrete problem defined over a polygonal tessellation with the Virtual Element Method. The presented Quality Agglomeration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Tommaso Sorgente , Fabio Vicini , Stefano Berrone , Silvia Biasotti , Gianmarco Manzini , Michela Spagnuolo

Multigrid solvers for hierarchical hybrid grids (HHG) have been proposed to promote the efficient utilization of high performance computer architectures. These HHG meshes are constructed by uniformly refining a relatively coarse fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Matthias Mayr , Luc Berger-Vergiat , Peter Ohm , Raymond S. Tuminaro

The paper investigates a non-intrusive parallel time integration with multigrid for space-fractional diffusion equations in two spatial dimensions. We firstly obtain a fully discrete scheme via using the linear finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-18 Xiaoqiang Yue , Shi Shu , Xiaowen Xu , Weiping Bu , Kejia Pan

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

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) frequently arise in continuum descriptions of physical processes relevant to science and engineering. Multilevel preconditioners represent a family of scalable techniques for solving discrete…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Dave A. May , Patrick Sanan , Karl Rupp , Matthew G. Knepley , Barry F. Smith

It is known that the solution of a conservative steady-state two-sided fractional diffusion problem can exhibit singularities near the boundaries. As consequence of this, and due to the conservative nature of the problem, we adopt a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco Donatelli , Rolf Krause , Mariarosa Mazza , Ken Trotti

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is conventionally applied in a black-box fashion, agnostic to the underlying geometry. In this work, we propose that using geometric information -- when available -- to assist with setting up the AMG hierarchy is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Songzhe Xu , Majid Rasouli , Robert M. Kirby , David Moxey , Hari Sundar

This paper describes a massively parallel algebraic multigrid method based on non-smoothed aggregation. It is especially suited for solving heterogeneous elliptic problems as it uses a greedy heuristic algorithm for the aggregation that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Markus Blatt , Olaf Ippisch , Peter Bastian

A method for performing high order mesh refinement multigrid computations is presented. The Full Approximation Scheme (FAS) multigrid technique is utilized for a sequence of nested patches of increasing resolution. Conservation forms are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas L. Beck

This paper introduces a novel approach to algebraic multigrid methods for large systems of linear equations coming from finite element discretizations of certain elliptic second order partial differential equations. Based on a discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Lukas Kogler , Joachim Schöberl

We introduce a smoothing algorithm for triangle, quadrilateral, tetrahedral and hexahedral meshes whose centerpiece is a simple geometric triangle transformation. The first part focuses on the mathematical properties of the element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Dimitris Vartziotis , Doris Bohnet

The geometric high-order regularization methods such as mean curvature and Gaussian curvature, have been intensively studied during the last decades due to their abilities in preserving geometric properties including image edges, corners,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Zhenwei Zhang , Ke Chen , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan

In this paper, we develop a multigrid method on unstructured shape-regular grids. For a general shape-regular unstructured grid of ${\cal O}(N)$ elements, we present a construction of an auxiliary coarse grid hierarchy on which a geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Lars Grasedyck , Lu Wang , Jinchao Xu

This article investigates the application of computer vision and graph-based models in solving mesh-based partial differential equations within high-performance computing environments. Focusing on structured, graded structured, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jens Decke , Olaf Wünsch , Bernhard Sick , Christian Gruhl

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods are among the most efficient solvers for linear systems of equations and they are widely used for the solution of problems stemming from the discretization of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Matteo Caldana , Paola F. Antonietti , Luca Dede'

Elastomeric mechanical metamaterials exhibit unconventional behaviour, emerging from their microstructures often deforming in a highly nonlinear and unstable manner. Such microstructural pattern transformations lead to non-local behaviour…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-18 S. O. Sperling , T. Guo , R. H. J. Peerlings , V. G. Kouznetsova , M. G. D. Geers , O. Rokoš

This study presents constructions of the space-time Conservation Element and Solution Element (CESE) methods to accommodate adaptive unstructured quadrilateral meshes. Subsequently, a novel algorithm is devised to effectively manage the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-10 Lisong Shi , Chaoxiong Zhang , Chih-Yung Wen