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Divergence constraints are present in the governing equations of numerous physical phenomena, and they usually lead to a Poisson equation whose solution represents a bottleneck in many simulation codes. Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) is arguably…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Àdel Alsalti-Baldellou , Carlo Janna , Xavier Álvarez-Farré , F. Xavier Trias

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

Two-grid theory plays a fundamental role in the design and analysis of multigrid methods. This paper is devoted to a new convergence analysis of two-grid methods for singular and symmetric positive semidefinite systems. Specifically, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Xuefeng Xu

We describe a finite-volume method for solving the Poisson equation on oct-tree adaptive meshes using direct solvers for individual mesh blocks. The method is a modified version of the method presented by Huang and Greengard (2000), which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Ricker

The aim of this paper is to develop an algebraic multigrid method to solve eigenvalue problems based on the combination of the multilevel correction scheme and the algebraic multigrid method for linear equations. Our approach uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Ning Zhang , Xiaole Han , Yunhui He , Hehu Xie , Chun'guang You

The convergence rate of a multigrid method depends on the properties of the smoother and the so-called grid transfer operator. In this paper we define and analyze new grid transfer operators with a generic cutting size which are applicable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Maria Charina , Marco Donatelli , Lucia Romani , Valentina Turati

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

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

Vertex-patch smoothers are essential for the robust convergence of geometric multigrid methods in high-order finite element applications, yet their adoption is traditionally hindered by the prohibitive cost of solving local patch problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Michał Wichrowski

As part of the development of a Poisson solver for the spectral element discretization used in the GeoFluid Object Workbench (GeoFLOW) code, we propose a solver for the linear system arising from a Gauss-Legendre-Lobatto global spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 José Pablo Lucero Lorca , Duane Rosenberg , Isidora Jankov , Conor McCoid , Martin Jakob Gander

We design and investigate a variety of multigrid solvers for high-order local discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to elliptic interface and multiphase Stokes problems. Using the template of a standard multigrid V-cycle, we consider a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Robert I. Saye

This paper presents a novel application of multiparameter spectral theory to the study of structural stability, with particular emphasis on aeroelastic flutter. Methods of multiparameter analysis allow the development of new solution…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Arion Pons , Stefanie Gutschmidt

The multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer grid scales, resulting in faster convergence compared to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Francisco Holguin , GS Sidharth , Gavin Portwood

Getting standard multigrid to work efficiently for the high-frequency Helmholtz equation has been an open problem in applied mathematics for years. Much effort has been dedicated to finding solution methods which can use multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Vandana Dwarka , Cornelis Vuik

We propose a convenient matrix-free neural architecture for the multigrid method. The architecture is simple enough to be implemented in less than fifty lines of code, yet it encompasses a large number of distinct multigrid solvers. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Vladimir Fanaskov

We present a new multigrid solver that is suitable for the Dirac operator in the presence of disordered gauge fields. The key behind the success of the algorithm is an adaptive projection onto the coarse grids that preserves the near null…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Brannick , R. C. Brower , M. A. Clark , J. C. Osborn , C. Rebbi

In this paper, a full (nested) multigrid scheme is proposed to solve eigenvalue problems. The idea here is to use the multilevel correction method to transform the solution of eigenvalue problem to a series of solutions of the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Hehu Xie

A multigrid method is proposed in this paper to solve eigenvalue problems by the finite element method based on the shifted-inverse power iteration technique. With this scheme, solving eigenvalue problem is transformed to a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Hongtao Chen , Yunhui He , Yu Li , Hehu Xie

Multigrid methods are popular iterative methods for solving large-scale sparse systems of linear equations. We present a mixed precision formulation of the multigrid V-cycle with general assumptions on the finite precision errors coming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Petr Vacek , Hartwig Anzt , Erin Carson , Nils Kohl , Ulrich Rüde , Yu-Hsiang Tsai

The dual formulation for linear elasticity, in contrast to the primal formulation, is not affected by locking, as it is based on the stresses as main unknowns. Thus it is quite attractive for nearly incompressible and incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Gabriele Rovi , Rolf Krause