Algebraic multigrid block preconditioning for multi-group radiation diffusion equations

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DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2020-0030zbMATH Open1473.65031arXiv2002.04958OpenAlexW3120903577MaRDI QIDQ5163207FDOQ5163207


Authors: Xiaoqiang Yue, Shulei Zhang, Shi Shu, Weidong (Larry) Shi, Xiao-Wen Xu Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 November 2021

Published in: Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper focuses on developing and studying efficient block preconditioners based on classical algebraic multigrid for the large-scale sparse linear systems arising from the fully coupled and implicitly cell-centered finite volume discretization of multi-group radiation diffusion equations, whose coefficient matrices can be rearranged into the (G+2)imes(G+2) block form, where G is the number of energy groups. The preconditioning techniques are based on the monolithic classical algebraic multigrid method, physical-variable based coarsening two-level algorithm and two types of block Schur complement preconditioners. The classical algebraic multigrid is applied to solve the subsystems that arise in the last three block preconditioners. The coupling strength and diagonal dominance are further explored to improve performance. We use representative one-group and twenty-group linear systems from capsule implosion simulations to test the robustness, efficiency, strong and weak parallel scaling properties of the proposed methods. Numerical results demonstrate that block preconditioners lead to mesh- and problem-independent convergence, and scale well both algorithmically and in parallel.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04958




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