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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

We deal with the numerical solution of the time-dependent partial differential equations using the adaptive space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method. The discretization leads to a nonlinear algebraic system at each time level, the size…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Vit Dolejsi , Jakub Sistek

Many problems in fluid modelling require the efficient solution of highly anisotropic elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in "flat" domains. For example, in numerical weather- and climate-prediction an elliptic PDE for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Andreas Dedner , Eike Hermann Müller , Robert Scheichl

Large-scale contact mechanics simulations are crucial in many engineering fields such as structural design and manufacturing. In the frictionless case, contact can be modeled by minimizing an energy functional; however, these problems are…

Linear solvers for large and sparse systems are a key element of scientific applications, and their efficient implementation is necessary to harness the computational power of current computers. Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) preconditioners are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone

A wide variety of (fixed-point) iterative methods for the solution of nonlinear equations (in Hilbert spaces) exists. In many cases, such schemes can be interpreted as iterative local linearization methods, which, as will be shown, can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

In this paper we consider a new version of the dual-primal isogeometric tearing and interconnecting (IETI-DP) method for solving large-scale linear systems of algebraic equations arising from discontinuous Galerkin (dG) isogeometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Christoph Hofer , Ulrich Langer

We have developed an adaptive multigrid code for solving the Poisson equation in gravitational simulations. Finer rectangular subgrids are adaptively created in locations where the density exceeds a local level-dependent threshold. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Suisalu , E. Saar

We present a novel solver technique for the anisotropic heat flux equation, aimed at the high level of anisotropy seen in magnetic confinement fusion plasmas. Such problems pose two major challenges: (i) discretization accuracy and (ii)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Golo A. Wimmer , Ben S. Southworth , Thomas J. Gregory , Xian-Zhu Tang

We develop a new meshfree geometric multilevel (MGM) method for solving linear systems that arise from discretizing elliptic PDEs on surfaces represented by point clouds. The method uses a Poisson disk sampling-type technique for coarsening…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Grady B. Wright , Andrew M. Jones , Varun Shankar

Problems arising in Earth's mantle convection involve finding the solution to Stokes systems with large viscosity contrasts. These systems contain localized features which, even with adaptive mesh refinement, result in linear systems that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Thomas C. Clevenger , Timo Heister

The Schr\"odinger equation defines the dynamics of quantum particles which has been an area of unabated interest in physics. We demonstrate how simple transformations of the Schr\"odinger equation leads to a coupled linear system, whereby…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Hisham bin Zubair , Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose

We propose a framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) motivated by isogeometric analysis (IGA) and local tensor-product splines. Instead of using a global basis for the solution space we use as generators the disjoint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Andrea Bressan , Massimiliano Martinelli , Giancarlo Sangalli

In the present paper we consider linear and isotropic Maxwell equations with inhomogeneous interface conditions. We discretize the problem with the discontinuous Galerkin method in space and with the leapfrog scheme in time. An analytical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Benjamin Dörich , Julian Dörner , Marlis Hochbruck

We discuss the ill conditioning of the matrix for the discretised Poisson equation in the small aspect ratio limit, and motivate this problem in the context of nonhydrostatic ocean modelling. Efficient iterative solvers for the Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 S. C. Kramer , C. J. Cotter , C. C. Pain

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhendong Li , Akwum Onwunta , Bedřich Sousedík

Discretization of flow in fractured porous media commonly lead to large systems of linear equations that require dedicated solvers. In this work, we develop an efficient linear solver and its practical implementation for mixed-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Xiaozhe Hu , Eirik Keilegavlen , Jan M. Nordbotten

In this paper we design and analyze a uniform preconditioner for a class of high order Discontinuous Galerkin schemes. The preconditioner is based on a space splitting involving the high order conforming subspace and results from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Paola F. Antonietti , Marco Sarti , Marco Verani , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

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

In this paper a discretization based on discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for an elliptic two-dimensional problem with discontinuous coefficients is considered. The problem is posed on a polygonal region $\Omega$ which is a union of $N$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Maksymilian Dryja , Juan Galvis , Marcus Sarkis