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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

This paper introduces a discretization-accurate stopping criterion of symmetric iterative methods for solving systems of algebraic equations resulting from the finite element approximation. The stopping criterion consists of the evaluations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Zhiqiang Cai , Shuhao Cao , Robert D. Falgout

Multigrid methods have proven to be an invaluable tool to efficiently solve large sparse linear systems arising in the discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs). Algebraic multigrid methods and in particular adaptive algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Hanno Gottschalk , Karsten Kahl

We investigate the performance of multigrid preconditioners for solving linear systems arising from finite element discretizations of elliptic interface problems using the Fictitious Domain with Distributed Lagrange Multipliers (FD-DLM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Chayapol Chaoveeraprasit

We introduce a geometric multigrid method for solving linear systems arising from variational problems on surfaces in geometry processing, Gravo MG. Our scheme uses point clouds as a reduced representation of the levels of the multigrid…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Ruben Wiersma , Ahmad Nasikun , Elmar Eisemann , Klaus Hildebrandt

In this paper, we investigate the combination of multigrid methods and neural networks, starting from a Finite Element discretization of an elliptic PDE. Multigrid methods use interpolation operators to transfer information between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Claudio Tomasi , Rolf Krause

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

Due to its optimal complexity, the multigrid (MG) method is one of the most popular approaches for solving large-scale linear systems arising from the discretization of partial differential equations. However, the parallel implementation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Hardik Kothari , Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola , Marco Favino , Rolf Krause

Multigrid methods were invented for the solution of discretized partial differential equations in ordered systems. The slowness of traditional algorithms is overcome by updates on various length scales. In this article we discuss…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-15 Thomas Kalkreuter

This paper presents MetricGrids, a novel grid-based neural representation that combines elementary metric grids in various metric spaces to approximate complex nonlinear signals. While grid-based representations are widely adopted for their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shu Wang , Yanbo Gao , Shuai Li , Chong Lv , Xun Cai , Chuankun Li , Hui Yuan , Jinglin Zhang

The efficient solution of sparse, linear systems resulting from the discretization of partial differential equations is crucial to the performance of many physics-based simulations. The algorithmic optimality of multilevel approaches for…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Andrew Reisner , Luke N. Olson , J. David Moulton

This paper presents a new fast iterative solver for large systems involving kernel matrices. Advantageous aspects of H2 matrix approximations and the multigrid method are hybridized to create the H2-MG algorithm. This combination provides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Daria Sushnikova , George Turkiyyah , Edmond Chow , David Keyes

We have developed an efficient algorithm for steady axisymmetrical 2D fluid equations. The algorithm employs multigrid method as well as standard implicit discretization schemes for systems of partial differential equations. Linearity of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-12-01 Zoran Ristivojevic , Zoran Lj. Petrovic

In this note we present a multigrid preconditioning method for solving quadratic optimization problems constrained by a fractional diffusion equation. Multigrid methods within the all-at-once approach to solve the first order-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Harbir Antil , Andrei Dr{ă}g{ă}nescu , Kiefer Green

In this work, we present a framework for the matrix-free solution to a monolithic quasi-static phase-field fracture model with geometric multigrid methods. Using a standard matrix based approach within the Finite Element Method requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Daniel Jodlbauer , Ulrich Langer , Thomas Wick

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

We develop multilevel methods for interface-driven multiphysics problems that can be coupled across dimensions and where complexity and strength of the interface coupling deteriorates the performance of standard methods. We focus on solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Ana Budisa , Xiaozhe Hu , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov

We present a first step towards a multigrid method for solving the min-cost flow problem. Specifically, we present a strategy that takes advantage of existing black-box fast iterative linear solvers, i.e. algebraic multigrid methods. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Alessio Quaglino , Rolf Krause

We consider discontinuous Galerkin methods for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem and we propose multigrid methods to solve the discretized system. We prove that the $W$-cycle algorithm is uniformly convergent in the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Sijing Liu

Our goal is to present an elementary approach to the analysis and programming of sparse grid finite element methods. This family of schemes can compute accurate solutions to partial differential equations, but using far fewer degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Stephen Russell , Niall Madden