English
Related papers

Related papers: A comparative study of efficient multigrid solvers…

200 papers

In this paper, we present a geometric multigrid methodology for the solution of matrix systems associated with isogeometric compatible discretizations of the generalized Stokes and Oseen problems. The methodology provably yields a pointwise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Christopher Coley , Joseph Benzaken , John A. Evans

We present a geometric multigrid solver based on adaptive smoothed aggregation suitable for Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretisations. Mesh hierarchies are formed via domain decomposition techniques, and the method is applicable to fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Yulong Pan , Michael Lindsey , Per-Olof Persson

Solving the Stokes equation by an optimal domain decomposition method derived algebraically involves the use of non standard interface conditions whose discretisation is not trivial. For this reason the use of approximation methods such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Michał Bosy , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We are interested in numerically solving the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations, which arise in optimal control and many other applications. Oftentimes, such equations are posed in high dimensions, and this poses great numerical challenges.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Wei Guo , Juntao Huang , Zhanjing Tao , Yingda Cheng

Efficient and suitably preconditioned iterative solvers for elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) of the convection-diffusion type are used in all fields of science and engineering. To achieve optimal performance, solvers have to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Peter Bastian , Eike Hermann Müller , Steffen Müthing , Marian Piatkowski

We present and analyze a new space-time parallel multigrid method for parabolic equations. The method is based on arbitrarily high order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations in time, and a finite element discretization in space. The key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Martin J. Gander , Martin Neumüller

In this paper, we propose a $W$-cycle $p$-multigrid method for solving the $p$-version symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (SIPDG) discretization of elliptic problems. This SIPDG discretization employs hierarchical Legendre…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Nuo Lei , Donghang Zhang , Weiying Zheng

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 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

In the present paper we propose a coupled multigrid method for generalized Stokes flow problems. Such problems occur as subproblems in implicit time-stepping approaches for time-dependent Stokes problems. The discretized Stokes system is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Stefan Takacs

This work focuses on the development of efficient solvers for the pseudo-stress formulation of the unsteady Stokes problem, discretised by means of a discontinuous Galerkin method on polytopal grids (PolyDG). The introduction of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Paola F. Antonietti , Alessandra Cancrini , Gabriele Ciaramella

This paper introduces a geometric multigrid preconditioner for the Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) designed to solve PDEs on complex geometries. While SBM simplifies mesh generation by using a non-conforming background grid, it often results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Michal Wichrowski

In this paper we analyze the convergence properties of two-level and W-cycle multigrid solvers for the numerical solution of the linear system of equations arising from hp-version symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Paola F. Antonietti , Paul Houston , Xiaozhe Hu , Marco Sarti , Marco Verani

We propose the first optimal geometric multigrid solver for hybrid high-order discretizations that can handle arbitrary polytopal agglomeration hierarchies in both two and three dimensions. The key ingredient is the use of modified skeleton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Santiago Badia , Jordi Manyer

In this article, we discuss the efficient implementation of powerful domain decomposition smoothers for multigrid methods for high order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods. In particular, we study the inversion of matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Julius Witte , Daniel Arndt , Guido Kanschat

Overlapping block smoothers efficiently damp the error contributions from highly oscillatory components within multigrid methods for the Stokes equations but they are computationally expensive. This paper is concentrated on the development…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Lisa Claus , Matthias Bolten

This article investigates matrix-free higher-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of the Navier--Stokes equations for incompressible flows with variable viscosity. The viscosity field may be prescribed analytically or governed by a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Richard Schussnig , Niklas Fehn , Douglas Ramalho Queiroz Pacheco , Martin Kronbichler

The efficient solution of large sparse saddle point systems is very important in computational fluid mechanics. The discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods have become increasingly popular for incompressible flow problems but their…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Denis Demidov , Lin Mu , Bin Wang

Sliding meshes are a powerful method to treat deformed domains in computational fluid dynamics, where different parts of the domain are in relative motion. In this paper, we present an efficient implementation of a sliding mesh method into…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jakob Dürrwächter , Marius Kurz , Patrick Kopper , Daniel Kempf , Claus-Dieter Munz , Andrea Beck

This paper introduces a novel staggered discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method tailored for solving elliptic equations on polytopal meshes. Our approach utilizes a primal-dual grid framework to ensure local conservation of fluxes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-01 L. Chen , X. Huang , E. Park , R. Wang