TY - EJOU AU - Yang, Houlin AU - Zuo, Bingquan AU - Wei, Zhipeng AU - Luo, Huixin AU - Fei, Jianguo TI - Geometric Multigrid Method for Isogeometric Analysis T2 - Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences PY - 2021 VL - 126 IS - 3 SN - 1526-1506 AB - The isogeometric analysis method (IGA) is a new type of numerical method solving partial differential equations. Compared with the traditional finite element method, IGA based on geometric spline can keep the model consistency between geometry and analysis, and provide higher precision with less freedom. However, huge stiffness matrix from the subdivision progress still leads to the solution efficiency problems. This paper presents a multigrid method based on geometric multigrid (GMG) to solve the matrix system of IGA. This method extracts the required computational data for multigrid method from the IGA process, which also can be used to improve the traditional algebraic multigrid method (AGM). Based on this, a full multigrid method (FMG) based on GMG is proposed. In order to verify the validity and reliability of these methods, this paper did some test on Poisson’s equation and Reynolds’ equation and compared the methods on different subdivision methods, different grid degrees of freedom, different cyclic structure degrees, and studied the convergence rate under different subdivision strategies. The results show that the proposed method is superior to the conventional algebraic multigrid method, and for the standard relaxed V-cycle iteration, the method still has a convergence speed independent of the grid size at the same degrees. KW - Isogeometric method; geometric multigrid method; reflecting matrix; subdivision strategy DO - 10.32604/cmes.2021.014493