Multigrid algorithms for C0 interior penalty methods

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2006

Abstract

Multigrid algorithms for C interior penalty methods for fourth order elliptic boundary value problems on polygonal domains are studied in this paper. It is shown that V-cycle, F-cycle and W-cycle algorithms are contractions if the number of smoothing steps is sufficiently large. The contraction numbers of these algorithms are bounded by Cm , where m is the number of presmoothing (and postsmoothing) steps, α is the index of elliptic regularity, and the positive constant C is mesh-independent. These estimates are established for a smoothing scheme that uses a Poisson solve as a preconditioner, which can be easily implemented because the C finite element spaces are standard spaces for second order problems. Furthermore the variable V-cycle algorithm is also shown to be an optimal preconditioner. © 2006 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 0 -α 0

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

First Page

199

Last Page

223

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