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Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including oil and gas recovery, carbon sequestration, and contaminant remediation. Numerical simulation of multiphase flow requires solving of a large, sparse linear…
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…
We present a geometric multigrid solver for the Compact Discontinuous Galerkin method through building a hierarchy of coarser meshes using a simple agglomeration method which handles arbitrary element shapes and dimensions. The method is…
An efficient nonlinear multigrid method for a mixed finite element method of the Darcy-Forchheimer model is constructed in this paper. A Peaceman-Rachford type iteration is used as a smoother to decouple the nonlinearity from the divergence…
Multigrid solvers face multiple challenges on parallel computers. Two fundamental ones read as follows: Multiplicative solvers issue coarse grid solves which exhibit low concurrency and many multigrid implementations suffer from an…
We consider the linear system Ax=b arising from one-dimensional Poisson's equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where A is the square matrix with the stencil form [-1 2 -1]. Here we show that a pairwise aggregation-based algebraic…
The widely used density matrix renormalization group (DRMG) method often fails to converge in systems with multiple length scales, such as lattice discretizations of continuum models and dilute or weakly doped lattice models. The local…
Removing geometrical details from a complex domain is a classical operation in computer aided design. This procedure simplifies the meshing process, and it enables faster simulations with less memory requirements. However, depending on the…
The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…
The computation of stationary distributions of Markov chains is an important task in the simulation of stochastic models. The linear systems arising in such applications involve non-symmetric M-matrices, making algebraic multigrid methods a…
We develop a reduction multigrid based on approximate ideal restriction (AIR) for use with asymmetric linear systems. We use fixed-order GMRES polynomials to approximate $A_\textrm{ff}^{-1}$ and we use these polynomials to build grid…
We consider an algebraic multigrid (AMG) scheme for the direct solution of complex- valued square linear systems based on a recursive 2 x 2 block partitioning of the coefficient matrix and study the optimal choices of its components. In…
Optimal exploitation of supercomputing resources for the evaluation of electrostatic forces remains a challenge in molecular dynamics simulations of very large systems. The most efficient methods are currently based on particle-mesh Ewald…
We present an approach to constructing a practical coarsening algorithm and interpolation operator for the algebraic multigrid (AMG) method, tailored towards systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) with large near-kernels, such as…
In this paper, we explore polynomial accelerators that are well-suited for parallel computations, specifically as smoothers in Algebraic MultiGrid (AMG) preconditioners. These accelerators address a minimax problem, initially formulated in…
The geometric high-order regularization methods such as mean curvature and Gaussian curvature, have been intensively studied during the last decades due to their abilities in preserving geometric properties including image edges, corners,…
Modeling the chemical, electric, and thermal transport as well as phase transitions and the accompanying mesoscale microstructure evolution within a material in an electronic device setting involves the solution of partial differential…
It is shown how various ideas that are well established for the solution of Poisson's equation using plane wave and multigrid methods can be combined with wavelet concepts. The combination of wavelet concepts and multigrid techniques turns…
Four adaptations of the smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid (SA-AMG) method are proposed with an eye towards improving the convergence and robustness of the solver in situations when the discretization matrix contains many weak…
Tokamak fusion reactors are actively studied as a means of realizing energy production from plasma fusion. However, due to the substantial cost and time required to construct fusion reactors and run physical experiments, numerical…