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Motivations<br />

Wave propagation modelling<br />

<strong>Solution</strong> method components: Iterative method and multigrid<br />

<strong>Solution</strong> strategy<br />

Numerical experiments<br />

Perspectives and conclusions<br />

Direct method on <strong>the</strong> coarse grid<br />

Three-<strong>dimensional</strong> problems<br />

Experiments on 128 processors<br />

Distributed MUMPS implementation [Amestoy et al, 2000].<br />

k<br />

Grid <br />

30 45 60 90<br />

64 3 7<br />

96 3 6 8<br />

128 3 5 6 8<br />

192 3 5 5 6 9<br />

Table: Iterations <strong>of</strong> FGMRES(5) versus grid sizes and wavenumbers<br />

Problem gets harder with increasing wavenumbers on a fixed<br />

grid [Elman, 2001].<br />

Slight increase <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> iterations when kh = constant (diagonal).<br />

23/27 Multigrid for geophysics applications

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