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Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is one of the fastest numerical methods for solving large sparse linear systems. For SPD matrices, convergence of AMG is well motivated in the $A$-norm, and AMG has proven to be an effective solver for many…

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

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is one of the most widely used solution techniques for linear systems of equations arising from discretized partial differential equations. The popularity of AMG stems from its potential to solve linear systems in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Carlo Janna , Andrea Franceschini , Jacob B. Schroder , Luke Olson

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is conventionally applied in a black-box fashion, agnostic to the underlying geometry. In this work, we propose that using geometric information -- when available -- to assist with setting up the AMG hierarchy is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Songzhe Xu , Majid Rasouli , Robert M. Kirby , David Moxey , Hari Sundar

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

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Jose Pablo Lucero Lorca , Conor McCoid , Michal Outrata

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods are powerful solvers with linear or near-linear computational complexity for certain classes of linear systems, Ax=b. Broadening the scope of problems that AMG can effectively solve requires the development…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-15 James Brannick , Scott P. MacLachlan , Jacob B. Schroder , Ben S. Southworth

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

Multigrid methods have proven to be an invaluable tool to efficiently solve large sparse linear systems arising in the discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs). Algebraic multigrid methods and in particular adaptive algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Hanno Gottschalk , Karsten Kahl

Large sparse linear systems of equations are ubiquitous in science and engineering, such as those arising from discretizations of partial differential equations. Algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods are one of the most common methods of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Ali Taghibakhshi , Scott MacLachlan , Luke Olson , Matthew West

We propose a data-driven and machine-learning-based approach to compute non-Galerkin coarse-grid operators in algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods, addressing the well-known issue of increasing operator complexity. Guided by the AMG theory on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Ru Huang , Kai Chang , Huan He , Ruipeng Li , Yuanzhe Xi

The numerical simulation of structural mechanics applications via finite elements usually requires the solution of large-size and ill-conditioned linear systems, especially when accurate results are sought for derived variables interpolated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Andrea Franceschini , Victor A. Paludetto Magri , Gianluca Mazzucco , Nicolò Spiezia , Carlo Janna

Multigrid algorithms are among the fastest iterative methods known today for solving large linear and some non-linear systems of equations. Greatly optimized for serial operation, they still have a great potential for parallelism not fully…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Julian Becerra-Sagredo , Carlos Malaga , Francisco Mandujano

We propose a path cover adaptive algebraic multigrid (PC-$\alpha$AMG) method for solving linear systems of weighted graph Laplacians and can also be applied to discretized second order elliptic partial differential equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-20 Xiaozhe Hu , Junyuan Lin , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

We develop multilevel methods for interface-driven multiphysics problems that can be coupled across dimensions and where complexity and strength of the interface coupling deteriorates the performance of standard methods. We focus on solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Ana Budisa , Xiaozhe Hu , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov

Many of the most fundamental laws of nature can be formulated as partial differential equations (PDEs). Understanding these equations is, therefore, of exceptional importance for many branches of modern science and engineering. However,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Jonas Schmitt

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

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

We propose a sparse interpolation construction and a practical coarsening algorithm for the algebraic multigrid (AMG) method, tailored towards H(curl). Building on the generalized AMG framework, we introduce an interior/exterior splitting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Taoli Shen , James Brannick , Robert Falgout , Karsten Kahl , Jacob Schroder

Functions of chemical composition are complex and discrete in nature making it impossible to optimize them with gradient methods. Genetic algorithms, which do not use derivative information, are used to maximize the thermal conductivity of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-30 Alexander Kerr , Kieran Mullen

We describe main issues and design principles of an efficient implementation, tailored to recent generations of Nvidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), of an Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) preconditioner previously proposed by one of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Massimo Bernaschi , Pasqua D'Ambra , Dario Pasquini