A parallel geometric multigrid method for finite elements on octree meshes

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1361-1392

  Sampath, Rahul S ^a   Biros, George ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive meshes; Finite element method; Geometric multigrid; Iterative solvers; Linear octrees; Matrix free methods; Meshing; Parallel algorithms; Tree codes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTICITY; FORESTRY; GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ADAPTIVE MESHES; GEOMETRIC MULTIGRID METHODS; GEOMETRIC MULTIGRIDS; ITERATIVE SOLVERS; LINEAR OCTREE; MATRIX-FREE METHODS; MESHING; OCTREE MESH; OCTREES; TREE CODE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77953819086     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090747774     Document Type: Article

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