p-Multigrid solution of high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations. Fidkowski, K. J., Oliver, T. A., Lu, J., & Darmofal, D. L. Journal of Computational Physics, 207(1):92–113, July, 2005.
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We present a p-multigrid solution algorithm for a high-order discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations. The algorithm employs an element line Jacobi smoother in which lines of elements are formed using coupling based on a p=0 discretization of the scalar convection–diffusion equation. Fourier analysis of the two-level p-multigrid algorithm for convection–diffusion shows that element line Jacobi presents a significant improvement over element Jacobi especially for high Reynolds number flows and stretched grids. Results from inviscid and viscous test cases demonstrate optimal hp+1 order of accuracy as well as p-independent multigrid convergence rates, at least up to p=3. In addition, for the smooth problems considered, p-refinement outperforms h-refinement in terms of the time required to reach a desired high accuracy level.
@Article{Fidkowski2005a,
    author      = {Fidkowski, Krzysztof J. and Oliver, Todd A. and Lu, James and Darmofal, David L.},
    title       = {p-{Multigrid} solution of high-order discontinuous {Galerkin} discretizations of the compressible {Navier}--{Stokes} equations},
    doi         = {10.1016/j.jcp.2005.01.005},
    issn        = {0021-9991},
    journal     = {Journal of Computational Physics},
    month       = {July},
    number      = {1},
    pages       = {92--113},
    url         = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021999105000185},
    volume      = {207},
    year        = {2005},
    abstract    = {We present a p-multigrid solution algorithm for a high-order discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization of the compressible Navier--Stokes equations. The algorithm employs an element line Jacobi smoother in which lines of elements are formed using coupling based on a p=0 discretization of the scalar convection--diffusion equation. Fourier analysis of the two-level p-multigrid algorithm for convection--diffusion shows that element line Jacobi presents a significant improvement over element Jacobi especially for high Reynolds number flows and stretched grids. Results from inviscid and viscous test cases demonstrate optimal hp+1 order of accuracy as well as p-independent multigrid convergence rates, at least up to p=3. In addition, for the smooth problems considered, p-refinement outperforms h-refinement in terms of the time required to reach a desired high accuracy level.}
}

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