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The performance of finite element solvers on modern computer architectures is typically memory bound for sufficiently large problems. The main cause for this is that loading matrix elements from RAM into CPU cache is significantly slower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Denis Davydov , Jean-Paul Pelteret , Daniel Arndt , Paul Steinmann

In this paper we propose a new class of preconditioners for the isogeometric discretization of the Stokes system. Their application involves the solution of a Sylvester-like equation, which can be done efficiently thanks to the Fast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Monica Montardini , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

Inexpensive numerical methods are key to enable simulations of systems of a large number of particles of different shapes in Stokes flow. Several approximate methods have been introduced for this purpose. We study the accuracy of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-24 Anna Broms , Mattias Sandberg , Anna-Karin Tornberg

We consider large linear systems arising from the isogeometric discretization of the Poisson problem on a single-patch domain. The numerical solution of such systems is considered a challenging task, particularly when the degree of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-22 Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

Unfitted finite element methods have emerged as a popular alternative to classical finite element methods for the solution of partial differential equations and allow modeling arbitrary geometries without the need for a boundary-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 S. Saberi , G. Meschke , A. Vogel

The first order condition of the constrained minimization problem leads to a saddle point problem. A multigrid method using a multiplicative Schwarz smoother for saddle point problems can thus be interpreted as a successive subspace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Long Chen

The Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) trades some part of the burden of body-fitted meshing for increased algebraic complexity. While the resulting linear systems retain the standard $\mathcal{O}(h^{-2})$ conditioning of second-order operators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Michał Wichrowski , Ajay Ajith

We propose a multigrid method to solve the linear system of equations arising from a hybrid discontinuous Galerkin (in particular, a single face hybridizable, a hybrid Raviart--Thomas, or a hybrid Brezzi--Douglas--Marini) discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-02 Peipei Lu , Wei Wang , Guido Kanschat , Andreas Rupp

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

We present a GPU implementation of vertex-patch smoothers for higher order finite element methods in two and three dimensions. Analysis shows that they are not memory bound with respect to GPU DRAM, but with respect to on-chip scratchpad…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Cu Cui , Paul Grosse-Bley , Guido Kanschat , Robert Strzodka

We present a monolithic geometric multigrid preconditioner for solving fluid-solid interaction problems in Stokes limit. The problems are discretized by a spatially adaptive high-order meshless method, the generalized moving least squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Zisheng Ye , Xiaozhe Hu , Wenxiao Pan

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

Automatic segmentation of an image to identify all meaningful parts is one of the most challenging as well as useful tasks in a number of application areas. This is widely studied. Selective segmentation, less studied, aims to use limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Michael Roberts , Ke Chen , Klaus L. Irion

This work introduces and assesses the efficiency of a monolithic $ph$MG multigrid framework designed for high-order discretizations of stationary Stokes systems using Taylor-Hood and Scott-Vogelius elements. The proposed approach integrates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Alexey Voronin , Graham Harper , Scott MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Raymond S. Tuminaro

In this paper, we propose an innovative isogeometric low-rank solver for the linear elasticity model problem, specifically designed to allow multipatch domains. Our approach splits the domain into subdomains, each formed by the union of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Monica Montardini , Giancarlo Sangalli , Mattia Tani

A discontinuous Galerkin method by patch reconstruction is proposed for Stokes flows. A locally divergence-free reconstruction space is employed as the approximation space, and the interior penalty method is adopted which imposes the normal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Ruo Li , Zhiyuan Sun , Zhijian Yang

This work presents a matrix-free finite element solver for finite-strain elasticity adopting an $hp$-multigrid preconditioner. Compared to classical algorithms relying on a global sparse matrix, matrix-free solution strategies significantly…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Richard Schussnig , Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Martin Kronbichler

We present a matrix-free flow solver for high-order finite element discretizations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes and Stokes equations with GPU acceleration. For high polynomial degrees, assembling the matrix for the linear systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Michael Franco , Jean-Sylvain Camier , Julian Andrej , Will Pazner

We present a robust and efficient multigrid method for single-patch isogeometric discretizations using tensor product B-splines of maximum smoothness. Our method is based on a stable splitting of the spline space into a large subspace of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Clemens Hofreither , Stefan Takacs

We present a novel stabilized isogeometric formulation for the Stokes problem, where the geometry of interest is obtained via overlapping NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) patches, i.e., one patch on top of another in an arbitrary but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Xiaodong Wei , Riccardo Puppi , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa