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In this work, a local Fourier analysis is presented to study the convergence of multigrid methods based on additive Schwarz smoothers. This analysis is presented as a general framework which allows us to study these smoothers for any type…

In the present paper we concentrate on an important issue in constructing a good multigrid solver: the choice of an efficient smoother. We will introduce all-at-once multigrid solvers for optimal control problems which show robust…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Stefan Takacs

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

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

The goal of this work is to construct and study hybrid and multiplicative two-level overlapping Schwarz algorithms with standard coarse spaces for the almost incompressible linear elasticity and Stokes systems, discretized by mixed finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Mingchao Cai , Luca F. Pavarino

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

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 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

The solution of saddle-point problems, such as the Stokes equations, is a challenging task, especially in large-scale problems. Multigrid methods are one of the most efficient solvers for such systems of equations and can achieve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 S. Saberi , G. Meschke , A. Vogel

Large linear systems of saddle-point type have arisen in a wide variety of applications throughout computational science and engineering. The discretizations of distributed control problems have a saddle-point structure. The numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Yunhui He

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

In recent years, solvers for finite-element discretizations of linear or linearized saddle-point problems, like the Stokes and Oseen equations, have become well established. There are two main classes of preconditioners for such systems:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Lukas Spies , Luke Olson , Scott MacLachlan

The solution to the Poisson equation arising from the spectral element discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation requires robust preconditioning strategies. One such strategy is multigrid. To realize the potential of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Malachi Phillips , Paul Fischer

In this work, we propose a local Fourier analysis for multigrid methods with coarsening by a factor of three for the staggered finite-difference method applied to the Stokes equations. In [21], local Fourier analysis has been applied to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Yunhui He

We have presented a fast method for solving a specific type of block four-by-four saddlepoint problem arising from the finite element discretization of the generalized 3D Stokes problem. We analyze the eigenvalue distribution and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Achraf Badahmane , Ahmed Ratnani , Hassane Sadok

Multigrid methods are popular solution algorithms for many discretized PDEs, either as standalone iterative solvers or as preconditioners, due to their high efficiency. However, the choice and optimization of multigrid components such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Patrick E. Farrell , Yunhui He , Scott P. MacLachlan

Pavarino proved that the additive Schwarz method with vertex patches and a low-order coarse space gives a $p$-robust solver for symmetric and coercive problems. However, for very high polynomial degree it is not feasible to assemble or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Pablo D. Brubeck , Patrick E. Farrell

In this paper a local Fourier analysis for multigrid methods on tetrahedral grids is presented. Different smoothers for the discretization of the Laplace operator by linear finite elements on such grids are analyzed. A four-color smoother…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-10-28 B. Gmeiner , T. Gradl , F. Gaspar , U. Rüde

A multigrid method for the Stokes system discretized with an Hdiv-conforming discontinuous Galerkin method is presented. It acts on the combined velocity and pressure spaces and thus does not need a Schur complement approximation. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Guido Kanschat , Youli Mao

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