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This work presents a multigrid preconditioned high order immersed finite difference solver to accurately and efficiently solve the Poisson equation on complex 2D and 3D domains. The solver employs a low order Shortley-Weller multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-31 James Gabbard , Andrea Paris , Wim M. van Rees

The design of fast solvers for isogeometric analysis is receiving a lot of attention due to the challenge that offers to find an algorithm with a robust convergence with respect to the spline degree. Here, we analyze the application of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Álvaro Pé de la Riva , Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco J. Gaspar

This paper develops a high-order selective discontinuous Galerkin (SDG) method for solving elliptic interface problems on interface-unfitted Cartesian meshes. This method applies the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulation on interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Fang Liu , Haroun Meghaichi , Xu Zhang

This work aims to construct and analyze a discontinuous Galerkin method on polytopal grids (PolydG) to solve the pseudo-stress formulation of the unsteady Stokes problem. The pseudo-stress variable is introduced due to the growing interest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Paola F. Antonietti , Michele Botti , Alessandra Cancrini , Ilario Mazzieri

We focus on the study of multigrid methods with aggressive coarsening and polynomial smoothers for the solution of the linear systems corresponding to finite difference/element discretizations of the Laplace equation. Using local Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-02 James Brannick , Xiaozhe Hu , Carmen Rodrigo , Ludmil Zikatanov

We present a GPU-accelerated version of a high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The equations are discretized in time using a semi-implicit scheme with explicit treatment of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Ali Karakus , Noel Chalmers , Kasia Swirydowicz , Timothy Warburton

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of optimized matrix-free stencil kernels for multigrid smoothing in the incompressible Stokes equations with variable viscosity, motivated by geophysical flow problems. We investigate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Marcel Ferrari , Cyrill Püntener , Alexander Sotoudeh , Niklas Viebig

The simulation of high-dimensional problems with manageable computational resource represents a long-standing challenge. In a series of our recent work [25, 17, 18, 24], a class of sparse grid DG methods has been formulated for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Wei Guo

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

Numerical simulation of incompressible viscous flow, in particular in three space dimensions, continues to remain a challenging task. Space-time finite element methods feature the natural construction of higher order discretization schemes.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Mathias Anselmann , Markus Bause

In this work, we analyze an unfitted discontinuous Galerkin discretization for the numerical solution of the Stokes system based on equal higher-order discontinuous velocities and pressures. This approach combines the best from both worlds,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Aikaterini Aretaki , Efthymios N. Karatzas , Georgios Katsouleas

We formulate and analyze a multiscale method for an elliptic problem with an oscillatory coefficient based on a skeletal (hybrid) formulation. More precisely, we employ hybrid discontinuous Galerkin approaches and combine them with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Peipei Lu , Roland Maier , Andreas Rupp

As part of our development of a computer code to perform 3D `constrained evolution' of Einstein's equations in 3+1 form, we discuss issues regarding the efficient solution of elliptic equations on domains containing holes (i.e., excised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott H. Hawley , Richard A. Matzner

A considerable amount of attention has been given to discontinuous Galerkin methods for hyperbolic problems in numerical relativity, showing potential advantages of the methods in dealing with hydrodynamical shocks and other…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Trevor Vincent , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Nils L. Fischer

Due to the indefiniteness and poor spectral properties, the discretized linear algebraic system of the vector Laplacian by mixed finite element methods is hard to solve. A block diagonal preconditioner has been developed and shown to be an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Long Chen , Yongke Wu , Lin Zhong , Jie Zhou

Uniform convergence of the geometric multigrid V-cycle is proven for HDG methods with a new set of assumptions on the injection operators from coarser to finer meshes. The scheme involves standard smoothers and local solvers which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Peipei Lu , Andreas Rupp , Guido Kanschat

The immersed boundary (IB) method is a widely used approach to simulating fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Although explicit versions of the IB method can suffer from severe time step size restrictions, these methods remain popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams , Robert D. Guy , Boyce E. Griffith

We consider discontinuous Galerkin methods for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem and we propose multigrid methods to solve the discretized system. We prove that the $W$-cycle algorithm is uniformly convergent in the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Sijing Liu

I present a motivation of several areas where the Multigrid techniques can be employed. I present typical areas where the multigrid solver might be employed. I give an introduction to smoothers and how one might choose a preconditionor as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-21 John T. Wallis

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