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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…

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We present novel improvements in the context of symbol-based multigrid procedures for solving large block structured linear systems. We study the application of an aggregation-based grid transfer operator that transforms the symbol of a…

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We analyze overlapping multiplicative Schwarz methods as smoothers in the geometric multigrid solution of two-dimensional anisotropic diffusion problems. For diffusion equations, it is well known that the smoothing properties of point-wise…

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A multigrid method for the Stokes system discretized with an Hdiv-conforming discontinuous Galerkin method is presented. It acts on the combined velocity and pressure spaces and thus does not need a Schur complement approximation. The…

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A fast multigrid solver is presented for high-order accurate Stokes problems discretised by local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods. The multigrid algorithm consists of a simple V-cycle, using an element-wise block Gauss-Seidel smoother.…

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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…

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We present a novel stabilized isogeometric formulation for the Stokes problem, where the geometry of interest is obtained via overlapping NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) patches, i.e., one patch on top of another in an arbitrary but…

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Monolithic preconditioners applied to the linear systems arising during the solution of the discretized incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are typically more robust than preconditioners based on incomplete block factorizations. Lower…

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Convolution-type integral equations commonly occur in signal processing and image processing. Discretizing these equations yields large and ill-conditioned linear systems. While the classic multigrid method is effective for solving linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lingfeng Li , Yin King Chu , Raymond Chan , Justin Wan

We discuss vertex patch smoothers as overlapping domain decomposition methods for fourth order elliptic partial differential equations. We show that they are numerically very efficient and yield high convergence rates. Furthermore, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Julius Witte , Cu Cui , Francesca Bonizzoni , Guido Kanschat

We propose V--cycle multigrid methods for vector field problems arising from the lowest order hexahedral N\'{e}d\'{e}lec finite element. Since the conventional scalar smoothing techniques do not work well for the problems, a new type of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Duk-Soon Oh

This paper introduces a novel geometric multigrid solver for unstructured curved surfaces. Multigrid methods are highly efficient iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. Despite the success in solving problems defined on…

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Multi-objective optimization is central to many engineering and machine learning applications, where multiple objectives must be optimized in balance. While multi-gradient based optimization methods combine these objectives in each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Trang H. Tran , Luis Nunes Vicente

In this paper we study convergence estimates for a multigrid algorithm with smoothers of successive subspace correction (SSC) type, applied to symmetric elliptic PDEs. First, we revisit a general convergence analysis on a class of multigrid…

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We present a monolithic $hp$ space-time multigrid method for tensor-product space-time finite element discretizations of the Stokes equations. Geometric and polynomial coarsening of the space-time mesh is performed, and the entire algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Nils Margenberg , Markus Bause , Peter Munch

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…

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The goal of this work is to construct and study hybrid and multiplicative two-level overlapping Schwarz algorithms with standard coarse spaces for the almost incompressible linear elasticity and Stokes systems, discretized by mixed finite…

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Non-smooth optimization is a core ingredient of many imaging or machine learning pipelines. Non-smoothness encodes structural constraints on the solutions, such as sparsity, group sparsity, low-rank and sharp edges. It is also the basis for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Clarice Poon , Gabriel Peyré

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…

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