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Algebraic multigrid (AMG) solvers and preconditioners are some of the fastest numerical methods to solve linear systems, particularly in a parallel environment, scaling to hundreds of thousands of cores. Most AMG methods and theory assume a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Ben S. Southworth , Thomas A. Manteuffel , John Ruge

In this paper, we develop two classes of robust preconditioners for the structure-preserving discretization of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system. By studying the well-posedness of the discrete system, we design block…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Yicong Ma , Kaibo Hu , Xiaozhe Hu , Jinchao Xu

We develop a nonlinear multigrid method to solve the steady state of microflow, which is modeled by the high order moment system derived recently for the steady-state Boltzmann equation with ES-BGK collision term. The solver adopts a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Zhicheng Hu , Ruo Li

In this note, we consider preconditioned Krylov subspace methods for discrete fluid-structure interaction problems with a nonlinear hyperelastic material model and covering a large range of flows, e.g, water, blood, and air with highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-15 U. Langer , H. Yang

Parallel multigrid is widely used as preconditioners in solving large-scale sparse linear systems. However, the current multigrid library still needs more satisfactory performance for structured grid problems regarding speed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Yi Zong , Peinan Yu , Haopeng Huang , Zhengding Hu , Xinliang Wang , Qin Wang , Chensong Zhang , Xiaowen Xu , Jian Sun , Yongxiao Zhou , Wei Xue

The novel contribution of this paper relies in the proposal of a fully implicit numerical method designed for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, in its convergence/stability analysis, and in the study of the related computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Matteo Semplice , Marco Donatelli , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

Runaway electrons (REs) generated during disruption events in tokamaks can carry mega-Ampere level currents, potentially causing damage to plasma-facing components. Understanding RE evolution during disruption events is important for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 R. Datta , C. Clauser , N. Ferraro , C. Liu , R. Sweeney , R. A. Tinguely

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

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) preconditioners are considered for discretized systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) where unknowns associated with different physical quantities are not necessarily co-located at mesh points.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Andrey Prokopenko , Raymond S. Tuminaro

Bundle adjustment is an important global optimization step in many structure from motion pipelines. Performance is dependent on the speed of the linear solver used to compute steps towards the optimum. For large problems, the current state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Tristan Konolige , Jed Brown

We present novel improvements in the context of symbol-based multigrid procedures for solving large block structured linear systems. We study the application of an aggregation-based grid transfer operator that transforms the symbol of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Matthias Bolten , Marco Donatelli , Paola Ferrari , Isabella Furci

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

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

Numerical simulation of incompressible fluid flows has been an active topic of research in Scientific Computing for many years, with many contributions to both discretizations and linear and nonlinear solvers. In this work, we propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Amin Rafiei , Scott MacLachlan

Finite element analysis of solid mechanics is a foundational tool of modern engineering, with low-order finite element methods and assembled sparse matrices representing the industry standard for implicit analysis. We use performance models…

We propose and investigate new robust preconditioners for space-time Isogeometric Analysis of parabolic evolution problems. These preconditioners are based on a time parallel multigrid method. We consider a decomposition of the space-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Christoph Hofer , Ulrich Langer , Martin Neumüller

Runge-Kutta (RK) schemes, especially Gauss-Legendre and some other fully implicit RK (FIRK) schemes, are desirable for the time integration of parabolic partial differential equations due to their A-stability and high-order accuracy.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Xiangmin Jiao , Xuebin Wang , Qiao Chen

The prediction of perturbed equilibrium models for tokamaks with small 3D fields is strongly dependent on which reference frame for axisymmetry is assumed - for example, the toroidal field (TF) coil vs the poloidal field (PF) coil centroid.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 J. Halpern , N. C. Logan , E. Paul , C. Paz-Soldan

We present a space-time multigrid method based on tensor-product space-time finite element discretizations. The method is facilitated by the matrix-free capabilities of the {\ttfamily deal.II} library. It addresses both high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Nils Margenberg , Peter Munch

The geometric multigrid method (GMG) is one of the most efficient solving techniques for discrete algebraic systems arising from elliptic partial differential equations. GMG utilizes a hierarchy of grids or discretizations and reduces the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-14 Chunsheng Feng , Shi Shu , Jinchao Xu , Chen-Song Zhang