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A Cascadic Multigrid Method for Mortar Elements (in preparation)


SC 99-07 Dietrich Braess, Peter Deuflhard, Konstantin Lipnikov: A Cascadic Multigrid Method for Mortar Elements (in preparation)


Abstract: A cascadic multigrid (CMG) method for elliptic problems with strong material jumps is proposed and analyzed. Non-matching grids at interfaces between subdomains are allowed and treated by mortar elements. The arising saddle point problems are solved by a subspace confined conjugate gradient method as smoother for the CMG. Details of algorithmic realization including adaptivity are elaborated. Numerical results illustrate the efficiency of this CMG algorithm.
Keywords: Finite Elements, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin Methods, Multigrid Methods, Domain Decomposition
MSC: 65N30, 65N55