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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Jian Huang , Long Chen , Hongxing Rui

We extend the semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin (SLDG) method of Einkemmer to velocity grids with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and to three-dimensional velocity space. The original SLDG formulation assumes uniform cell widths, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Mark F. Adams

In this work, we present scalable balancing domain decomposition by constraints methods for linear systems arising from arbitrary order edge finite element discretizations of multi-material and heterogeneous 3D problems. In order to enforce…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Marc Olm

We propose a method that morphs high-orger meshes such that their boundaries and interfaces coincide/align with implicitly defined geometries. Our focus is particularly on the case when the target surface is prescribed as the zero…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jorge-Luis Barrera , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

We present a unified framework to tie overlapping meshes in solid mechanics applications. This framework is a combination of the X-FEM method and the mortar method, which uses Lagrange multipliers to fulfill the tying constraints. As known,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Basava Raju Akula , Julien Vignollet , Vladislav A. Yastrebov

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Jonathan J. Hu , Chris Siefert , Raymond S. Tuminaro

Translations or, more generally, coordinate transformations of scalar fields arise in several applications, such as weather, accretion disk and magnetized plasma turbulence modeling. In local studies of accretion disks and magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Manaure Francisquez , Noah R. Mandell , Ammar Hakim , Gregory W. Hammett

The multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer grid scales, resulting in faster convergence compared to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Francisco Holguin , GS Sidharth , Gavin Portwood

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

In this paper, we present an efficient adaptive multigrid strategy for the geometry optimization of large-scale three dimensional molecular mechanics. The resulting method can achieve significantly reduced complexity by exploiting the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Kejie Fu , Mingjie Liao , Yangshuai Wang , Jianjun Chen , Lei Zhang

In this article we construct and analyze multigrid preconditioners for discretizations of operators of the form D+K* K, where D is the multiplication with a relatively smooth positive function and K is a compact linear operator. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Andrei Draganescu , Cosmin Petra

We propose a robust, adaptive coarse-grid correction scheme for matrix-free geometric multigrid targeting PDEs with strongly varying coefficients. The method combines uniform geometric coarsening of the underlying grid with heterogeneous…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Fabian Böhm , Nils Kohl , Harald Köstler , Ulrich Rüde

We present an efficient numerical method, inspired by transformation optics, for solving the Poisson equation in complex and arbitrarily shaped geometries. The approach operates by mapping the physical domain to a uniform computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Deepak Gautam , Bhooshan Paradkar

Higher-order numerical methods are used to find accurate numerical solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations and equations of transport type. Limiting is required to either converge to the correct type of solution or to adhere…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-10 James Woodfield

The immersed boundary (IB) method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses Lagrangian variables to describe the structure and Eulerian variables to describe the fluid. Explicit time stepping schemes for the IB method require…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Robert D. Guy , Bobby Philip , Boyce E. Griffith

We propose and analyze an overlapping Schwarz preconditioner for the $p$ and $hp$ boundary element method for the hypersingular integral equation in 3D. We consider surface triangulations consisting of triangles. The condition number is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Thomas Führer , Jens Markus Melenk , Dirk Praetorius , Alexander Rieder

The discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) methodology of Demkowicz and Gopalakrishnan [15,17] guarantees the optimality of the solution in an energy norm, and provides several features facilitating adaptive schemes. A key question that has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Nathan V. Roberts , Jesse Chan

In this paper we analyse the convergence properties of V-cycle multigrid algorithms for the numerical solution of the linear system of equations arising from discontinuous Galerkin discretization of second-order elliptic partial…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-02 P. F. Antonietti , G. Pennesi

One of the challenges encountered in optimization of mechanical structures, in particular in what is known as topology optimization, is the size of the problems, which can easily involve millions of variables. A basic example is the minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Alexander Brune , Michal Kocvara

Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) methods have been proven to be effective solvers for large-scale linear algebraic systems $Ax = b$ with Hermitian positive definite (HPD) matrix $A$. For such problems the convergence in the $A$-norm is well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Reinhard Nabben , Ludwig Rooch