Tensor product type subspace splittings and multilevel iterative methods for anisotropic problems (Q1894155)

The paper provides a thorough theoretical background for tensor-product multigrid methods. Application is made to the traditional nodal multigrid methods and to prewavelet methods, with emphasis on their applicability to anisotropic elliptic equations. Numerical examples are presented for several such schemes as applied to a strongly anisotropic reduced wave equation.