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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

A stable numerical solution of the steady Stokes problem requires compatibility between the choice of velocity and pressure approximation that has traditionally proven problematic for meshless methods. In this work, we present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Nathaniel Trask , Martin Maxey , Xiaozhe Hu

We propose a new hybrid topology optimization algorithm based on multigrid approach that combines the parallelization strategy of CPU using OpenMP and heavily multithreading capabilities of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU). In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Arya Prakash Padhi , Souvik Chakraborty , Anupam Chakrabarti , Rajib Chowdhury

Efficient and suitably preconditioned iterative solvers for elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) of the convection-diffusion type are used in all fields of science and engineering. To achieve optimal performance, solvers have to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Peter Bastian , Eike Hermann Müller , Steffen Müthing , Marian Piatkowski

We present families of space-time finite element methods (STFEMs) for a coupled hyperbolic-parabolic system of poro- or thermoelasticity. Well-posedness of the discrete problems is proved. Higher order approximations inheriting most of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause , Nils Margenberg , Pavel Shamko

The main focus of this paper is the study of efficient multigrid methods for large linear systems with a particular saddle-point structure. Indeed, when the system matrix is symmetric, but indefinite, the variational convergence theory that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Marco Donatelli , Matthias Bolten , Paola Ferrari , Isabella Furci

We present a number of novel algorithms, based on mathematical optimization formulations, in order to solve a homogeneous multiprocessor scheduling problem, while minimizing the total energy consumption. In particular, for a system with a…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Mason Thammawichai , Eric C. Kerrigan

We present a parallel computing strategy for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) nested geometric multigrid (GMG) solver. Parallel GMG solvers require a combination of coarse-grain and fine-grain parallelism to improve time to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-18 M. S. Fabien , M. G. Knepley , R. T. Mills , B. M. Riviere

A parallel implementation of a compatible discretization scheme for steady-state Stokes problems is presented in this work. The scheme uses generalized moving least squares to generate differential operators and apply boundary conditions.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Quang-Thinh Ha , Paul A. Kuberry , Nathaniel A. Trask , Emily M. Ryan

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

The efficient solution of sparse, linear systems resulting from the discretization of partial differential equations is crucial to the performance of many physics-based simulations. The algorithmic optimality of multilevel approaches for…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Andrew Reisner , Luke N. Olson , J. David Moulton

The performance of finite element solvers on modern computer architectures is typically memory bound for sufficiently large problems. The main cause for this is that loading matrix elements from RAM into CPU cache is significantly slower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Denis Davydov , Jean-Paul Pelteret , Daniel Arndt , Paul Steinmann

We introduce a family of implementations of low order, additive, geometric multilevel solvers for systems of Helmholtz equations. Both grid spacing and arithmetics may comprise complex numbers and we thus can apply complex scaling…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Bram Reps , Tobias Weinzierl

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods are state-of-the-art algebraic solvers for partial differential equations. Still, their efficiency depends heavily on the choice of suitable parameters and/or ingredients. Paradigmatic examples include the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Paola F. Antonietti , Matteo Caldana , Lorenzo Gentile , Marco Verani

Matrix-free finite element implementations of massively parallel geometric multigrid save memory and are often significantly faster than implementations using classical sparse matrix techniques. They are especially well suited for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Simon Bauer , Marcus Mohr , Ulrich Rüde , Jens Weismüller , Markus Wittmann , Barbara Wohlmuth

This paper introduces a novel approach to algebraic multigrid methods for large systems of linear equations coming from finite element discretizations of certain elliptic second order partial differential equations. Based on a discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Lukas Kogler , Joachim Schöberl

In this paper we present an all-at-once multigrid method for a distributed Stokes control problem (velocity tracking problem). For solving such a problem, we use the fact that the solution is characterized by the optimality system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Stefan Takacs

Topology optimization for large scale problems continues to be a computational challenge. Several works exist in the literature to address this topic, and all make use of iterative solvers to handle the linear system arising from the Finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Darin Peetz , Ahmed Elbanna

This paper presents a new fast iterative solver for large systems involving kernel matrices. Advantageous aspects of H2 matrix approximations and the multigrid method are hybridized to create the H2-MG algorithm. This combination provides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Daria Sushnikova , George Turkiyyah , Edmond Chow , David Keyes

This paper compares the performance of seven different element agglomeration algorithms on unstructured triangular/tetrahedral meshes when used as part of a geometric multigrid. Five of these algorithms come from the literature on AMGe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-20 S. Dargaville , A. G. Buchan , R. P. Smedley-Stevenson , P. N. Smith , C. C. Pain