2024/08/08 by Margenberg, Nils, Munch, Peter · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.04372
We present a space-time multigrid method based on tensor-product space-time finite element discretizations. The method is facilitated by the matrix-free capabilities of the \ttfamily deal.II library. It addresses both high-order continuous and discontinuous variational time discretizations with spatial finite element discretizations. The effectiveness of multigrid methods in large-scale stationary problems is well established. However, their application in the space-time context poses significant challenges, mainly due to the construction of suitable smoothers. To address these challenges, we develop a space-time cell-wise additive Schwarz smoother and demonstrate its effectiveness on the heat and acoustic wave equations. The matrix-free framework of the \ttfamily deal.II library supports various multigrid strategies, including h-, p-, and hp-refinement across spatial and temporal dimensions. Extensive empirical evidence, provided through scaling and convergence tests on high-performance computing platforms, demonstrate high performance on perturbed meshes and problems with heterogeneous and discontinuous coefficients. Throughputs of over a billion degrees of freedom per second are achieved on problems with more than a trillion global degrees of freedom. The results prove that the space-time multigrid method can effectively solve complex problems in high-fidelity simulations and show great potential for use in coupled problems.