Topic 2: Elliptic Partial Differential Equ ations Lectu re 2-4: Poisson’s Equation: Multigrid Methods Wednesday , Febru ary 3, 2010 Contents 1 Mu ltigrid Methods 2 Multigrid method for Poisson’s equation in 2-D 3 Simple V − cycle algorithm 4 Restricting the Residu al to a Coarser Lattice 1 2 3 5 7 1 MULTIGRID METHODS 5 Prolongation of the Correction to the Finer Lattice 6 Cell-centered and Vertex-centered Grids and Coarsenings 7 Boundary points 8 Restriction and Prolongation Operators 9 Improvements and More Complicated Multigrid Algorithms 8 8 11 11 15 1 Multigrid Methods The multigrid method provides algorithms which can be used to accelerate the rate of convergence of iterative methods, such as Jacobi or Gauss-Seidel, for solving elliptic partial differential equations
Iterative method