On selecting coarse-grid operators for Parareal and MGRIT applied to linear advection

arXiv1902.07757MaRDI QIDQ6314366FDOQ6314366

Oliver A. Krzysik, H. De Sterck, Scott P. MacLachlan, S. Friedhoff

Publication date: 20 February 2019

Abstract: We consider the parallel time integration of the linear advection equation with the Parareal and two-level multigrid-reduction-in-time (MGRIT) algorithms. Our aim is to develop a better understanding of the convergence behaviour of these algorithms for this problem, which is known to be poor relative to the diffusion equation, its model parabolic counterpart. Using Fourier analysis, we derive new convergence estimates for these algorithms which, in conjunction with existing convergence theory, provide insight into the origins of this poor performance. We then use this theory to explore improved coarse-grid time-stepping operators. For several high-order discretizations of the advection equation, we demonstrate that there exist non-standard coarse-grid time stepping operators that yield significant improvements over the standard choice of rediscretization.

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