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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

Algorithms for many hypergraph problems, including partitioning, utilize multilevel frameworks to achieve a good trade-off between the performance and the quality of results. In this paper we introduce two novel aggregative coarsening…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Ruslan Shaydulin , Ilya Safro

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

This paper presents a matrix-free multigrid method for solving the Stokes problem, discretized using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin methods. We employ a Schur complement method combined with the fast diagonalization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

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

During the last decade, Neural Networks (NNs) have proved to be extremely effective tools in many fields of engineering, including autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis and search engines, and even in art creation. Indeed, NNs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dmitry Kuznichov

A fast multigrid solver is presented for high-order accurate Stokes problems discretised by local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods. The multigrid algorithm consists of a simple V-cycle, using an element-wise block Gauss-Seidel smoother.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Robert Saye

Ill-conditioning of the system matrix is a well-known complication in immersed finite element methods and trimmed isogeometric analysis. Elements with small intersections with the physical domain yield problematic eigenvalues in the system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 F. de Prenter , C. V. Verhoosel , E. H. van Brummelen , J. A. Evans , C. Messe , J. Benzaken , K. Maute

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

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

Simulating and developing large rectangularly shaped arrays with equidistant interspacing is challenging as the computational complexity grows quickly with array size. However, the geometrical shape of the array, appropriately meshed, leads…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Harald Hultin , Lucas Åkerstedt , B. L. G. Jonsson

Multilevel techniques are efficient approaches for solving the large linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations and other problems. While geometric multigrid requires detailed knowledge about the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Tareq. U. Zaman , Scott P. MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Matt West

In this paper we analyse the convergence properties of V-cycle multigrid algorithms for the numerical solution of the linear system of equations arising from discontinuous Galerkin discretization of second-order elliptic partial…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-02 P. F. Antonietti , G. Pennesi

This work presents a novel agglomeration-based multilevel preconditioner designed to accelerate the convergence of iterative solvers for linear systems arising from the discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the monodomain model in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Marco Feder , Pasquale Claudio Africa

Automatic segmentation of an image to identify all meaningful parts is one of the most challenging as well as useful tasks in a number of application areas. This is widely studied. Selective segmentation, less studied, aims to use limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Michael Roberts , Ke Chen , Klaus L. Irion

Block iterative methods are extremely important as smoothers for multigrid methods, as preconditioners for Krylov methods, and as solvers for diagonally dominant linear systems. Developing robust and efficient algorithms suitable for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Manuel Birke , Bobby Philip , Zhen Wang , Mark Berrill

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

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

We improve the performance of multigrid solvers on many-core architectures with cache hierarchies by reorganizing operations in the smoothing step to minimize memory transfers. We focus on patch smoothers, which offer robust convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Michał Wichrowski , Peter Munch , Martin Kronbichler , Guido Kanschat

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