<div dir="ltr">Hi, <div><br></div><div>I am planning to study the effects of geometric multigrid method both as a Solver and Preconditioner on a system of transport problems involving coupled diffusion + finite strain mechanics. Part of that study will be to evaluate the performance of FD vs higher order FEM (Both Lagrange and Spectral elements).</div>
<div><br></div><div>So in this context I have a few questions:</div><div>1) To motivate the use of MG schemes in this coupled system of equations, I plan to initially implement a Red-Black Gauss Siedel solver for FD to serve as a benchmark. Is there a good example related to the Red-Black Gauss Siedel implementation?.</div>
<div>.</div><div>2) I plan to implement a higher order Lagrange and Spectral element FEM code. I found one related example in </div><div>petsc/src/ksp/ksp/examples/tutorials/ex59.c. Are there any better examples of general FEM code implementations.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3) MG is often used as a preconditioner, but are there any examples showing its use as a solver?. I found a few examples here </div><div><a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/concepts/multigrid.html">http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/concepts/multigrid.html</a>, but nothing in the current version of those codes refer to any MG datastructures like DMMG which were part of the earlier versions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Shiva Rudraraju</div><div>Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>