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A method is presented to include irregular domain boundaries in a geometric multigrid solver. Dirichlet boundary conditions can be imposed on an irregular boundary defined by a level set function. Our implementation employs quadtree/octree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Jannis Teunissen , Francesca Schiavello

An efficient $hp$-multigrid scheme is presented for local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations of elliptic problems, formulated around the idea of separately coarsening the underlying discrete gradient and divergence operators. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Daniel Fortunato , Chris H. Rycroft , Robert Saye

We present a matrix-free GPU multigrid preconditioner with algebraically consistent coarsening for solving Poisson equations on adaptive octree grids with irregular domains. Within uniform-resolution regions, the coarsening satisfies the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Mengdi Wang , Yuchen Sun , Bo Zhu

We present a polynomial multigrid method for nodal interior penalty and local discontinuous Galerkin formulations of the Poisson equation on Cartesian grids. For smoothing we propose two classes of overlapping Schwarz methods. The first…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Jörg Stiller

We present a simple and effective multigrid-based Poisson solver of second-order accuracy in both gravitational potential and forces in terms of the one, two and infinity norms. The method is especially suitable for numerical simulations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Chien-Chang Yen

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

We solve Poisson's equation using new multigrid algorithms that converge rapidly. The novel feature of the 2D and 3D algorithms are the use of extra diagonal grids in the multigrid hierarchy for a much richer and effective communication…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. J. Roberts

As part of our development of a computer code to perform 3D `constrained evolution' of Einstein's equations in 3+1 form, we discuss issues regarding the efficient solution of elliptic equations on domains containing holes (i.e., excised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott H. Hawley , Richard A. Matzner

We propose a robust, adaptive coarse-grid correction scheme for matrix-free geometric multigrid targeting PDEs with strongly varying coefficients. The method combines uniform geometric coarsening of the underlying grid with heterogeneous…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Fabian Böhm , Nils Kohl , Harald Köstler , Ulrich Rüde

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

Multigrid solvers are among the most efficient methods for solving the Poisson equation, which is ubiquitous in computational physics. For example, in the context of incompressible flows, it is typically the costliest operation. The present…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Gilles Poncelet , Jonathan Lambrechts , Thomas Gillis , Philippe Chatelain

We present a new multigrid scheme for solving the Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a Cartesian grid with irregular domain boundaries. This scheme was developed in the context of the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Thomas Guillet , Romain Teyssier

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

The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , L. Ridgway Scott

Multilevel techniques are efficient approaches for solving the large linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations and other problems. While geometric multigrid requires detailed knowledge about the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Tareq. U. Zaman , Scott P. MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Matt West

We present a numerical method for solving the Poisson equation on a nested grid. The nested grid consists of uniform grids having different grid spacing and is designed to cover the space closer to the center with a finer grid. Thus our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Tomoyuki Hanawa

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…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-10-28 B. Gmeiner , T. Gradl , F. Gaspar , U. Rüde

We present an efficient numerical method, inspired by transformation optics, for solving the Poisson equation in complex and arbitrarily shaped geometries. The approach operates by mapping the physical domain to a uniform computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Deepak Gautam , Bhooshan Paradkar

We present a geometric multigrid solver for the Compact Discontinuous Galerkin method through building a hierarchy of coarser meshes using a simple agglomeration method which handles arbitrary element shapes and dimensions. The method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Yulong Pan , Per-Olof Persson

We present a polynomial multigrid method for the nodal interior penalty formulation of the Poisson equation on three-dimensional Cartesian grids. Its key ingredient is a weighted overlapping Schwarz smoother operating on element-centered…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Joerg Stiller
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