Uniform convergent multigrid methods for elliptic problems with strongly discontinuous coefficients

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-105

  Xu, Jinchao ^a,b   Zhu, Yunrong ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

BPX preconditioner; Effective condition number; MGCG; Multigrid; Preconditioned conjugate gradient; Variable coefficient

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EFFECTIVE CONDITION NUMBER; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT; VARIABLE COEFFICIENT;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 43949139588     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202508002619     Document Type: Article

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