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Publications and source records attributed to Conor McCoid.
We introduce a new direct multilevel method for solving arbitrary complex square linear systems that uses a regular smoother and an arbitrary but equal number of pre- and post-smoothings. Through careful analysis of the error propagation operator, we cluster the spectrum of this operator. This allows us to write a direct K-cycle version of the method.
As part of the development of a Poisson solver for the spectral element discretization used in the GeoFluid Object Workbench (GeoFLOW) code, we propose a solver for the linear system arising from a Gauss-Legendre-Lobatto global spectral method. We precondition using a p-multigrid {\gamma}-cycle with highly-vectorizable smoothers, that we refer to as line smoothers. Our smoothers are restrictions of spectral and finite element discretizations to low-order one-dimensional problems along lines, that are solved by a reformulation of cyclic reduction as a direct multigrid method. We illustrate our method with numerical experiments showing the apparent boundedness of the iteration count for a fixed residual reduction over a range of moderately deformed domains, right hand sides and Dirichlet boundary conditions.