Geometric multigrid for an implicit-time immersed boundary method

Preconditioners for iterative methods (65F08) Iterative numerical methods for linear systems (65F10) Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M55) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Boundary element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S15)

Abstract: The immersed boundary (IB) method is an approach to fluid-structure interaction that uses Lagrangian variables to describe the structure and Eulerian variables to describe the fluid. Explicit time stepping schemes for the IB method require solvers only for Eulerian equations, for which fast Cartesian grid solution methods are available. Such methods are relatively straightforward to develop and are widely used in practice but often require very small time steps to maintain stability. Implicit-time IB methods permit the stable use of large time steps, but efficient implementations of such methods require significantly more complex solvers that effectively treat both Lagrangian and Eulerian variables simultaneously. Several different approaches to solving the coupled Lagrangian-Eulerian equations have been proposed, but a complete understanding of this problem is still emerging. This paper presents a geometric multigrid method for an implicit-time discretization of the IB equations. This multigrid scheme uses a generalization of box relaxation that is shown to handle problems in which the physical stiffness of the structure is very large. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the algorithms described herein. These tests show that using multigrid as a preconditioner for a Krylov method yields improvements in both robustness and efficiency as compared to using multigrid as a solver. They also demonstrate that with a time step 100--1000 times larger than that permitted by an explicit IB method, the multigrid-preconditioned implicit IB method is approximately 50--200 times more efficient than the explicit method.

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