• DocumentCode
    801372
  • Title

    Why Multigrid Methods Are So Efficient

  • Author

    Yavneh, Irad

  • Author_Institution
    Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa
  • Volume
    8
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    12
  • Lastpage
    22
  • Abstract
    Originally introduced as a way to numerically solve elliptic boundary-value problems, multigrid methods, and their various multiscale descendants, have since been developed and applied to various problems in many disciplines. This introductory article provides the basic concepts and methods of analysis and outlines some of the difficulties of developing efficient multigrid algorithms
  • Keywords
    differential equations; elliptic boundary value problems; multigrid algorithms; multigrid methods; Algorithm design and analysis; Arithmetic; Books; Convergence; Integral equations; Jacobian matrices; Legged locomotion; Medals; Multigrid methods; Partial differential equations; multigrid methods; numerical solution of partial differntial equations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computing in Science & Engineering
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1521-9615
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSE.2006.125
  • Filename
    1717310