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Due to its optimal complexity, the multigrid (MG) method is one of the most popular approaches for solving large-scale linear systems arising from the discretization of partial differential equations. However, the parallel implementation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Hardik Kothari , Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola , Marco Favino , Rolf Krause

In this paper, we develop a new parallel auxiliary grid algebraic multigrid (AMG) method to leverage the power of graphic processing units (GPUs). In the construction of the hierarchical coarse grid, we use a simple and fixed coarsening…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-07 Lu Wang , Xiaozhe Hu , Jonathan Cohen , Jinchao Xu

The convergence of multigrid methods degrades significantly if a small number of low quality cells are present in a finite element mesh, and this can be a barrier to the efficient and robust application of multigrid on complicated geometric…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yuxuan Chen , Garth N. Wells

This paper puts forth a coarse grid projection (CGP) multiscale method to accelerate computations of quasigeostrophic (QG) models for large scale ocean circulation. These models require solving an elliptic sub-problem at each time step,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-08 Omer San , Anne E. Staples

Ground segmentation is an important preprocessing task for autonomous vehicles (AVs) with 3D LiDARs. To solve the problem of existing ground segmentation methods being very difficult to balance accuracy and computational complexity, a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Weixin Huang , Huawei Liang , Linglong Lin , Zhiling Wang , Shaobo Wang , Biao Yu , Runxin Niu

Elliptic partial differential equations are important both from application and analysis points of views. In this paper we apply the Closest Point Method to solving elliptic equations on general curved surfaces. Based on the closest point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Yujia Chen , Colin B. Macdonald

Mapping the environment has been an important task for robot navigation and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). LIDAR provides a fast and accurate 3D point cloud map of the environment which helps in map building. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-14 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Multigrid solvers for hierarchical hybrid grids (HHG) have been proposed to promote the efficient utilization of high performance computer architectures. These HHG meshes are constructed by uniformly refining a relatively coarse fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Matthias Mayr , Luc Berger-Vergiat , Peter Ohm , Raymond S. Tuminaro

We propose an adaptive multigrid preconditioning technology for solving linear systems arising from Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations. Unlike standard multigrid techniques, this preconditioner involves only trace spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

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

This paper improves the convergence and robustness of a multigrid-based solver for the cross sections of the driven Schroedinger equation. Adding an Coupled Channel Correction Step (CCCS) after each multigrid (MG) V-cycle efficiently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Siegfried Cools , Wim Vanroose

Reconstructing 3D point clouds into triangle meshes is a key problem in computational geometry and surface reconstruction. Point cloud triangulation solves this problem by providing edge information to the input points. Since no vertex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Huan Lei , Ruitao Leng , Liang Zheng , Hongdong Li

We present a comparison of different multigrid approaches for the solution of systems arising from high-order continuous finite element discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations on complex geometries. We consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Hari Sundar , Georg Stadler , George Biros

We propose a level-set-based semi-Lagrangian method on graded adaptive Cartesian grids to address the problem of surface reconstruction from point clouds. The goal is to obtain an implicit, high-quality representation of real shapes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Silvia Preda , Matteo Semplice

An efficient $hp$-multigrid scheme is presented for local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations of elliptic problems, formulated around the idea of separately coarsening the underlying discrete gradient and divergence operators. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Daniel Fortunato , Chris H. Rycroft , Robert Saye

Computing offsets of curves on parametric surfaces is a fundamental yet challenging operation in computer aided design and manufacturing. Traditional analytical approaches suffer from time-consuming geodesic distance queries and complex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jin Zhao , Pengfei Wang , Shuangmin Chen , Jiong Guo , Shiqing Xin , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a prominent research direction owing to its ultrarapid training speed and high-fidelity rendering capabilities. However, the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiao Ren , Yu Liu , Ning An , Jian Cheng , Xin Qiao , He Kong

Man-made objects usually exhibit descriptive curved features (i.e., curve networks). The curve network of an object conveys its high-level geometric and topological structure. We present a framework for extracting feature curve networks…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuanhao Cao , Liangliang Nan , Peter Wonka

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

In this paper, we develop a multigrid method on unstructured shape-regular grids. For a general shape-regular unstructured grid of ${\cal O}(N)$ elements, we present a construction of an auxiliary coarse grid hierarchy on which a geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Lars Grasedyck , Lu Wang , Jinchao Xu