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The paper focuses on developing and studying efficient block preconditioners based on classical algebraic multigrid for the large-scale sparse linear systems arising from the fully coupled and implicitly cell-centered finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Xiaoqiang Yue , Shulei Zhang , Xiaowen Xu , Shi Shu , Weidong Shi

Advanced finite-element discretizations and preconditioners for models of poroelasticity have attracted significant attention in recent years. The equations of poroelasticity offer significant challenges in both areas, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 James H. Adler , Yunhui He , Xiaozhe Hu , Scott MacLachlan , Peter Ohm

Isogeometric Analysis is a high-order discretization method for boundary value problems that uses a number of degrees of freedom which is as small as for a low-order method. Standard isogeometric discretizations require a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Stefan Takacs

I make three conceptual points regarding multigrid methods for computing propagators in lattice gauge theory: 1) The class of operators handled by the algorithm must be stable under coarsening. 2) Problems related by symmetry should have…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-01 Alan D. Sokal

To numerically solve a generic elliptic equation on two-dimensional domains with rectangular Cartesian grids, we propose a cut-cell geometric multigrid method that features (1) general algorithmic steps that apply to two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Jiyu Liu , Zhixuan Li , Jiatu Yan , Zhiqi Li , Qinghai Zhang

We describe a set of techniques for performing large scale ab initio calculations using multigrid accelerations and a real-space grid as a basis. The multigrid methods provide effective convergence acceleration and preconditioning on all…

mtrl-th · Physics 2008-02-03 E. L. Briggs , D. J. Sullivan , J. Bernholc

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

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

In this paper, we develop a multigrid method on unstructured shape-regular grids. For a general shape-regular unstructured grid of ${\cal O}(N)$ elements, we present a construction of an auxiliary coarse grid hierarchy on which a geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Lars Grasedyck , Lu Wang , Jinchao Xu

We present a new meshless method for scalar diffusion equations which is motivated by their compatible discretizations on primal-dual grids. Unlike the latter though, our approach is truly meshless because it only requires the graph of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Nathaniel Trask , Mauro Perego , Pavel Bochev

This paper provides a rounding-error analysis for two-grid methods that use one relaxation step both before and after coarsening. The analysis is based on floating point arithmetic and focuses on a two-grid scheme that is perturbed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Stephen F. McCormick , Rasmus Tamstorf

Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including oil and gas recovery, carbon sequestration, and contaminant remediation. Numerical simulation of multiphase flow requires solving of a large, sparse linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Quan M. Bui , Lu Wang , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

In recent contributions, algebraic multigrid methods have been designed and studied from the viewpoint of the spectral complementarity. In this note we focus our efforts on specific applications and, more precisely, on large linear systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-03 S. Serra-Capizzano , C. Tablino Possio

Compatible finite element discretisations for the atmospheric equations of motion have recently attracted considerable interest. Semi-implicit timestepping methods require the repeated solution of a large saddle-point system of linear…

We consider a standard elliptic partial differential equation and propose a geometric multigrid algorithm based on Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) maps for hybridized high-order finite element methods. The proposed unified approach is applicable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Tim Wildey , Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Tan Bui-Thanh

Local Fourier analysis is a useful tool for predicting and analyzing the performance of many efficient algorithms for the solution of discretized PDEs, such as multigrid and domain decomposition methods. The crucial aspect of local Fourier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Jed Brown , Yunhui He , Scott MacLachlan , Matt Menickelly , Stefan M. Wild

Multigrid is one of the most efficient methods for solving large-scale linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations. As a foundation for multigrid analysis, two-grid theory plays an important role in motivating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Xuefeng Xu , Chen-Song Zhang

In this paper, we present a multiscale method for simulations of the multicontinua unsaturated flow problems in heterogeneous fractured porous media. The mathematical model is described by the system of Richards equations for each continuum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Denis Spiridonov , Maria Vasilyeva , Eric T. Chung

We solve Poisson's equation using new multigrid algorithms that converge rapidly. The novel feature of the 2D and 3D algorithms are the use of extra diagonal grids in the multigrid hierarchy for a much richer and effective communication…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. J. Roberts

We present an iterative scheme, reminiscent of the Multigrid method, to solve large boundary value problems with Probabilistic Domain Decomposition (PDD). In it, increasingly accurate approximations to the solution are used as control…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Francisco Bernal , Juan A. Acebrón