Research Article

The Mixed Finite Element Multigrid Method for Stokes Equations

Table 5

Number of iterations and CPU time for multigrid (-cycle) with different smoothers and smoother preconditioner approximations at different levels of refinement, tolerance = .

Levels MG--cycle()
DGS IUzawa Braess-SarazinPMINRES
Iter(cpu time (sec))Iter(cpu time (sec))Iter(cpu time (sec))Iter(cpu time (sec))

15 ()9 ()7 ()15 ()
16 ()10 ()8 ()14 ()
17 ()9 ()8 ()14 ()
17 ()9 ()8 ()14 ()