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We consider geometric multigrid methods for the solution of linear systems arising from isogeometric discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations. For classical finite elements, such methods are well known to be fast solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Clemens Hofreither , Stefan Takacs , Walter Zulehner

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…

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This paper introduces a material-aware strength-of-connection measure for smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid methods, aimed at improving robustness for scalar partial differential equations with heterogeneous and anisotropic material…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Max Firmbach , Malachi Phillips , Christian Glusa , Alexander Popp , Christopher M. Siefert , Matthias Mayr

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) frequently arise in continuum descriptions of physical processes relevant to science and engineering. Multilevel preconditioners represent a family of scalable techniques for solving discrete…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Dave A. May , Patrick Sanan , Karl Rupp , Matthew G. Knepley , Barry F. Smith

In this paper, we develop multigrid solvers for the biharmonic problem in the framework of isogeometric analysis (IgA). In this framework, one typically sets up B-splines on the unit square or cube and transforms them to the domain of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Jarle Sogn , Stefan Takacs

The Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) trades some part of the burden of body-fitted meshing for increased algebraic complexity. While the resulting linear systems retain the standard $\mathcal{O}(h^{-2})$ conditioning of second-order operators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Michał Wichrowski , Ajay Ajith

We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Leonardo A. Poveda , Shubin Fu , Guanglian Li , Eric Chung

The multigrid algorithm is a multilevel approach to accelerate the numerical solution of discretized differential equations in physical problems involving long-range interactions. Multiresolution analysis of wavelet theory provides an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yesilleten , T. A. Arias

This paper provides an overview of the main ideas driving the bootstrap algebraic multigrid methodology, including compatible relaxation and algebraic distances for defining effective coarsening strategies, the least squares method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Achi Brandt , James Brannick , Karsten Kahl , Ira Livshits

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is often an effective solver for symmetric positive definite (SPD) linear systems resulting from the discretization of general elliptic PDEs, or the spatial discretization of parabolic PDEs. However, convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Thomas A. Manteuffel , Steffen Munzenmaier , John Ruge , Ben S. Southworth

This paper is devoted to the multigrid convergence analysis for the linear systems arising from the conforming linear finite element discretization of the second order elliptic equations with anisotropic diffusion. The multigrid convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-09 Guozhu Yu , Jinchao Xu , Ludmil Zikatanov

Fully realizing the potential of multigrid solvers often requires custom algorithms for a given application model, discretizations and even regimes of interest, despite considerable effort from the applied math community to develop fully…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Mark F. Adams , Matthew K. Knepley

Unfitted finite element methods have emerged as a popular alternative to classical finite element methods for the solution of partial differential equations and allow modeling arbitrary geometries without the need for a boundary-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 S. Saberi , G. Meschke , A. Vogel

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

Multilevel partitioning methods that are inspired by principles of multiscaling are the most powerful practical hypergraph partitioning solvers. Hypergraph partitioning has many applications in disciplines ranging from scientific computing…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ruslan Shaydulin , Jie Chen , Ilya Safro

In this paper we motivate, discuss the implementation and present the resulting numerics for a new definition of strength of connection which is based on the notion of algebraic distance. This algebraic distance measure, combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 A. Brandt , J. Brannick , K. Kahl , I. Livshits

This paper provides a unified and detailed presentation of root-node style algebraic multigrid (AMG). Algebraic multigrid is a popular and effective iterative method for solving large, sparse linear systems that arise from discretizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Thomas A. Manteuffel , Luke N. Olson , Jacob B. Schroder , Ben S. Southworth

Multiscale methods for second order elliptic equations based on non-overlapping domain decomposition schemes have great potential to take advantage of multi-core, state-of-the-art parallel computers. These methods typically involve solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-18 E. Abreu , P. Ferraz , A. M. Espírito Santo , F. Pereira , L. G. C. Santos , F. S. Sousa

In many numerical schemes, the computational complexity scales non-linearly with the problem size. Solving a linear system of equations using direct methods or most iterative methods is a typical example. Algebraic multi-grid (AMG) methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Reza Namazi , Arsham Zolanvari , Mahdi Sani , Seyed Amir Ali Ghafourian Ghahramani

We consider the solution of elliptic problems on the tensor product of two physical domains as e.g. present in the approximation of the solution covariance of elliptic partial differential equations with random input. Previous sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Helmut Harbrecht , Peter Zaspel