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In the context of isogeometric analysis, we consider two discretization approaches that make the resulting stiffness matrix nonsymmetric even if the differential operator is self-adjoint. These are the collocation method and the…

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In this paper, we revisit an auxiliary space preconditioning method proposed by Xu [Computing 56, 1996], in which low-order finite element spaces are employed as auxiliary spaces for solving linear algebraic systems arising from high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-13 Young-Ju Lee , Wei Leng , Chen-Song Zhang

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

Numerical simulation of incompressible viscous flow, in particular in three space dimensions, continues to remain a challenging task. Space-time finite element methods feature the natural construction of higher order discretization schemes.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

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 the first optimal geometric multigrid solver for hybrid high-order discretizations that can handle arbitrary polytopal agglomeration hierarchies in both two and three dimensions. The key ingredient is the use of modified skeleton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Santiago Badia , Jordi Manyer

The present work develops hybrid multigrid methods for high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Fast matrix-free operator evaluation on tensor product elements is used to devise a computationally efficient PDE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

In the present paper we propose a coupled multigrid method for generalized Stokes flow problems. Such problems occur as subproblems in implicit time-stepping approaches for time-dependent Stokes problems. The discretized Stokes system is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Stefan Takacs

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Kamala Liu , William D. Henshaw

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

The paper focuses on developing and studying efficient block preconditioners based on classical algebraic multigrid for the large-scale sparse linear systems arising from the fully coupled and implicitly cell-centered finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Xiaoqiang Yue , Shulei Zhang , Xiaowen Xu , Shi Shu , Weidong Shi

Motivated by the need for efficient and accurate simulation of the dynamics of the polar ice sheets, we design high-order finite element discretizations and scalable solvers for the solution of nonlinear incompressible Stokes equations. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Tobin Isaac , Georg Stadler , Omar Ghattas

This work presents a multigrid preconditioned high order immersed finite difference solver to accurately and efficiently solve the Poisson equation on complex 2D and 3D domains. The solver employs a low order Shortley-Weller multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-31 James Gabbard , Andrea Paris , Wim M. van Rees

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Guido Kanschat , Youli Mao

In this article we present a new multigrid preconditioner for the linear systems arising in the semismooth Newton method solution of certain control-constrained, quadratic distributed optimal control problems. Using a piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Andrei Draganescu , Jyoti Saraswat

We present parameter-robust preconditioners for linear systems that arise after applying static condensation to a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretization of the time-dependent Stokes problem. Building upon the theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Esteban Henríquez , Jeonghun J. Lee , Sander Rhebergen

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

We construct an algebraic multigrid (AMG) based preconditioner for the reduced Hessian of a linear-quadratic optimization problem constrained by an elliptic partial differential equation. While the preconditioner generalizes a geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Andrew T. Barker , Andrei Draganescu

We study the high-contrast biharmonic plate equation with HCT and Morley discretizations. We construct a preconditioner that is robust with respect to contrast size and mesh size simultaneously based on the preconditioner proposed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-10-06 Burak Aksoylu , Zuhal Yeter

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