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The solution to the Poisson equation arising from the spectral element discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation requires robust preconditioning strategies. One such strategy is multigrid. To realize the potential of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Malachi Phillips , Paul Fischer

We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kai Weixian Lan , Elias Gueidon , Ayano Kaneda , Julian Panetta , Joseph Teran

Due to the high computational load of modern numerical simulation, there is a demand for approaches that would reduce the size of discrete problems while keeping the accuracy reasonable. In this work, we present an original algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Sergei Shumilin , Alexander Ryabov , Nikolay Yavich , Evgeny Burnaev , Vladimir Vanovskiy

In this article we consider two-grid finite element methods for solving semilinear interface problems in d space dimensions, for d=2 or d=3. We first describe in some detail the target problem class with discontinuous diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Michael Holst , Ryan Szypowski , Yunrong Zhu

We provide an alternative Fourier analysis for multigrid applied to the Poisson problem in 1D, based on explicit derivation of spectra of the iteration matrix. The new Fourier analysis has advantages over the existing one. It is easy to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Adem Kaya

We present a Ritz-Galerkin discretization on sparse grids using pre-wavelets, which allows to solve elliptic differential equations with variable coefficients for dimension $d=2,3$ and higher dimensions $d>3$. The method applies multilinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Rainer Hartmann , Christoph Pflaum

We design and investigate efficient multigrid solvers for multiphase Stokes problems discretised via mixed-degree local discontinuous Galerkin methods. Using the template of a standard multigrid V-cycle, we develop a smoother analogous to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Robert I. Saye

We compute the structure of a self-gravitating torus with polytropic equation-of-state (EOS) rotating in an imposed centrifugal potential. The Poisson-solver is based on isotropic multigrid with optimal covering factor (fluid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 J. -M. Huré , F. Hersant

This paper develops an algebraic multigrid preconditioner for the graph Laplacian. The proposed approach uses aggressive coarsening based on the aggregation framework in the setup phase and a polynomial smoother with sufficiently large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-25 James Brannick

This study presents novel strategies for improving the node-level performance of matrix-free evaluation of continuous and discontinuous Galerkin spatial discretizations on unstructured tetrahedral grids. In our approach the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Dominik Still , Niklas Fehn , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

This paper presents an efficient high-order sharp-interface method for solving the three-dimensional (3D) Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a nonuniform Cartesian grid with irregular domain boundaries. The new approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-20 Shirzad Hosseinverdi , Hermann F. Fasel

I present a motivation of several areas where the Multigrid techniques can be employed. I present typical areas where the multigrid solver might be employed. I give an introduction to smoothers and how one might choose a preconditionor as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-21 John T. Wallis

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

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

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

An efficient solver for the three dimensional free-space Poisson equation is presented. The underlying numerical method is based on finite Fourier series approximation. While the error of all involved approximations can be fully controlled,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Lukas Exl

We present a coarse-grid projection (CGP) method for accelerating incompressible flow computations, which is applicable to methods involving Poisson equations as incompressibility constraints. The CGP methodology is a modular approach that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-08 Omer San , Anne E. Staples

We present a comparison of different multigrid approaches for the solution of systems arising from high-order continuous finite element discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations on complex geometries. We consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Hari Sundar , Georg Stadler , George Biros

An expandable local and parallel two-grid finite element scheme based on superposition principle for elliptic problems is proposed and analyzed in this paper by taking example of Poisson equation. Compared with the usual local and parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Yanren Hou , Guangzhi Du

Coarse grid projection (CGP) multigrid techniques are applicable to sets of equations that include at least one decoupled linear elliptic equation. In CGP, the linear elliptic equation is solved on a coarsened grid compared to the other…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 A. Kashefi