Nonuniformly weighted Schwarz smoothers for spectral element multigrid

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Abstract: A hybrid Schwarz/multigrid method for spectral element solvers to the Poisson equation in mathbbR2 is presented. It extends the additive Schwarz method studied by J. Lottes and P. Fischer (J. Sci. Comput. 24:45--78, 2005) by introducing nonuniform weight distributions based on the smoothed sign function. Using a V-cycle with only one pre-smoothing, the new method attains logarithmic convergence rates in the range from 1.2 to 1.9, which corresponds to residual reductions of almost two orders of magnitude. Compared to the original method, it reduces the iteration count by a factor of 1.5 to 3, leading to runtime savings of about 50 percent. In numerical experiments the method proved robust with respect to the mesh size and polynomial orders up to 32. Used as a preconditioner for the (inexact) CG method it is also suited for anisotropic meshes and easily extended to diffusion problems with variable coefficients.



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