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Semi-implicit time-stepping schemes for atmosphere and ocean models require elliptic solvers that work efficiently on modern supercomputers. This paper reports our study of the potential computational savings when using mixed precision…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jan Ackmann , Peter D. Düben , Tim N. Palmer , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is known to be an effective solver for many sparse symmetric positive definite (SPD) linear systems. For SPD systems, the convergence theory of AMG is well-understood in terms of the $A$-norm, but in a nonsymmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ahsan Ali , James Brannick , Karsten Kahl , Oliver A. Krzysik , Jacob B. Schroder , Ben S. Southworth

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) methods derive their optimal efficiency from the interplay between a relaxation process and a corresponding coarse grid correction. In many standard formulations, relaxation and coarse-graining are analyzed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Rayan Moussa , Karsten Kahl

The preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms for solving large-scale linear systems Ax = b, where A is a symmetric positive definite matrix. Rather than computing residuals directly, it updates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Thomas Bake , Erin Carson , Yuxin Ma

This paper is devoted to the multigrid convergence analysis for the linear systems arising from the conforming linear finite element discretization of the second order elliptic equations with anisotropic diffusion. The multigrid convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-09 Guozhu Yu , Jinchao Xu , Ludmil Zikatanov

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

This paper introduces a discretization-accurate stopping criterion of symmetric iterative methods for solving systems of algebraic equations resulting from the finite element approximation. The stopping criterion consists of the evaluations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Zhiqiang Cai , Shuhao Cao , Robert D. Falgout

Support for arithmetic in multiple precisions and number formats is becoming increasingly common in emerging high-performance architectures. From a computational scientist's perspective, our goal is to determine how and where we can safely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Erin Claire Carson

Numerical solvers of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are of fundamental significance to science and engineering. To date, the historical reliance on legacy techniques has circumscribed possible integration of big data knowledge and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Xi Han , Fei Hou , Hong Qin

Fully computable a posteriori error estimates in the energy norm are given for singularly perturbed semilinear reaction-diffusion equations posed in polygonal domains. Linear finite elements are considered on anisotropic triangulations. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Natalia Kopteva

Constructing fast numerical solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) is crucial for many scientific disciplines. A leading technique for solving large-scale PDEs is using multigrid methods. At the core of a multigrid solver is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Daniel Greenfeld , Meirav Galun , Ron Kimmel , Irad Yavneh , Ronen Basri

In this note we examine the a priori and a posteriori analysis of discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretisations of semilinear elliptic PDEs with polynomial nonlinearity. We show that optimal a priori error bounds in the energy norm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-30 James Jackaman , Tristan Pryer

The first order condition of the constrained minimization problem leads to a saddle point problem. A multigrid method using a multiplicative Schwarz smoother for saddle point problems can thus be interpreted as a successive subspace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Long Chen

We consider the numerical solution of Poisson's equation on structured grids using geometric multigrid with nonstandard coarse grids and coarse level operators. We are motivated by the problem of developing high-order accurate numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Kamala Liu , William D. Henshaw

This work introduces a new method to efficiently solve optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain coefficients. The method leverages two sources of inexactness that trade accuracy for speed:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Matthew J. Zahr , Kevin T. Carlberg , Drew P. Kouri

In this paper, we discuss the convergence of an Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) method for general symmetric positive-definite matrices. The method relies on an aggregation algorithm, named \emph{coarsening based on compatible weighted matching},…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone , Ludmil Zikatanov

Block Floating Point (BFP) arithmetic is currently seeing a resurgence in interest because it requires less power, less chip area, and is less complicated to implement in hardware than standard floating point arithmetic. This paper explores…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Nils Kohl , Stephen F. McCormick , Rasmus Tamstorf

For many linear and nonlinear systems that arise from the discretization of partial differential equations the construction of an efficient multigrid solver is a challenging task. Here we present a novel approach for the optimization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Jonas Schmitt , Sebastian Kuckuk , Harald Köstler

Hardware trends have motivated the development of mixed precision algo-rithms in numerical linear algebra, which aim to decrease runtime while maintaining acceptable accuracy. One recent development is the development of an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Noaman Khan , Erin Carson