Multigrid Reduced in Time for Isogeometric Analysis

Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) can be seen as the natural extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM) to high-order B-spline basis functions. Combined with a time inte- gration scheme within the method of lines, IgA has become a viable alternative to FEM for time-dependent problems. However, as processors' clock speeds are no longer increasing but...

A Direct Projection to Low-Order Level for p-Multigrid Methods in Isogeometric Analysis

Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) can be considered as the natural extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM) to high-order B-spline basis functions. The development of efficient solvers for discretizations arising in IgA is a challenging task, as most (standard) iterative solvers have a detoriating performance for increasing values of the...

Efficient p-Multigrid Based Solvers for Isogeometric Analysis on Multipatch Geometries

Isogeometric Analysis can be considered as the natural extension of the Finite Element Method (FEM) to higher-order spline based discretizations simplifying the treatment of complex geometries with curved boundaries. Finding a solution of the resulting linear systems of equations efficiently remains, however, a challenging task. Recently, p...

Efficient multigrid based solvers for B-spline MPM

The Material Point Method (MPM) has been applied successfully to problems in engineering which involve large deformations and history-dependent material behavior. However, the classical method suffers from some shortcomings which influence the quality of the numerical solution significantly. High-order B-spline basis functions solve the problem...

Comparison between Material Point Method and meshfree schemes derived from optimal transportation theory

Both the Material Point Method (MPM) and meshfree schemes based on optimal transport theory have been developed for efficient and robust integration of the weak form equations originating from computational mechanics. Although the methods are derived in a different fashion, their algorithms share many similarities. In this paper, we outline the...

Efficient Multigrid based solvers for isogeometric analysis

Introduced in [1], Isogeometric Analysis (IgA) has become widely accepted in academia and industry. However, solving the resulting linear systems remains a challenging task. For instance, the condition number of the Poisson operator scales quadratically with the mesh width h, but, in contrast to standard Finite Elements, exponentially with the...