Multigrid - the Fundamentals,
a 2009 Copper Mountain tutorial given by Irad Yavneh

Outline:

  • The Fundamental Idea: Local vs. Global Processing
  • Successive Refinement - Why is it not Good Enough?
  • The Multigrid Algorithm
  • Smoothing Analysis and h-Ellipticity

    Attendees who want to maximize the benefit of the tutorial can download the introductory paper "Why Multigrid Methods are so Efficient?" recommended as preparatory reading material for the tutorial.

    Also provided here is a basic companion multigrid code written in Matlab.

    The slides for the tutorial itself can be downloaded here.