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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

I propose a vertex patch smoother where local problems are solved inexactly by a nested, matrix-free p-multigrid, creating a multigrid-within-multigrid framework. A single iteration of the local solver can be evaluated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Michał Wichrowski

We design and investigate efficient multigrid solvers for multiphase Stokes problems discretised via mixed-degree local discontinuous Galerkin methods. Using the template of a standard multigrid V-cycle, we develop a smoother analogous to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Robert I. Saye

This paper presents a matrix-free multigrid method for solving the Stokes problem, discretized using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin methods. We employ a Schur complement method combined with the fast diagonalization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

A fast multigrid solver is presented for high-order accurate Stokes problems discretised by local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods. The multigrid algorithm consists of a simple V-cycle, using an element-wise block Gauss-Seidel smoother.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Robert Saye

We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 M. Cai , A. J. Nonaka , J. B. Bell , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

We discuss vertex patch smoothers as overlapping domain decomposition methods for fourth order elliptic partial differential equations. We show that they are numerically very efficient and yield high convergence rates. Furthermore, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Julius Witte , Cu Cui , Francesca Bonizzoni , Guido Kanschat

We improve the performance of multigrid solvers on many-core architectures with cache hierarchies by reorganizing operations in the smoothing step to minimize memory transfers. We focus on patch smoothers, which offer robust convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Michał Wichrowski , Peter Munch , Martin Kronbichler , Guido Kanschat

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 design and investigate a variety of multigrid solvers for high-order local discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to elliptic interface and multiphase Stokes problems. Using the template of a standard multigrid V-cycle, we consider a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Robert I. Saye

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

In this paper, we develop a local Fourier analysis of multigrid methods based on block-structured relaxation schemes for stable and stabilized mixed finite-element discretizations of the Stokes equations, to analyze their convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Yunhui He , Scott P. MacLachlan

We consider the widely used continuous $\mathcal{Q}_{k}$-$\mathcal{Q}_{k-1}$ quadrilateral or hexahedral Taylor-Hood elements for the finite element discretization of the Stokes and generalized Stokes systems in two and three spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Daniel Jodlbauer , Ulrich Langer , Thomas Wick , Walter Zulehner

We present a monolithic $hp$ space-time multigrid method for tensor-product space-time finite element discretizations of the Stokes equations. Geometric and polynomial coarsening of the space-time mesh is performed, and the entire algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Nils Margenberg , Markus Bause , Peter Munch

The dual formulation for linear elasticity, in contrast to the primal formulation, is not affected by locking, as it is based on the stresses as main unknowns. Thus it is quite attractive for nearly incompressible and incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Gabriele Rovi , Rolf Krause

Numerical solution of discrete PDEs corresponding to saddle point problems is highly relevant to physical systems such as Stokes flow. However, scaling up numerical solvers for such systems is often met with challenges in efficiency and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Yutian Tao , Eftychios Sifakis

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

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

The numerical analysis of higher-order mixed finite-element discretizations for saddle-point problems, such as the Stokes equations, has been well-studied in recent years. While the theory and practice of such discretizations is now…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Amin Rafiei , Scott MacLachlan

In this work, we propose three Braess-Sarazin-type multigrid relaxation schemes for solving linear elasticity problems, where the marker and cell scheme, a finite difference method, is used for the discretization. The three relaxation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Yunhui He , Yu Li
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