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Main Authors: Aparicio-Estrems, Guillermo, Gargallo-Peiró, Abel, Roca, Xevi
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13654
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author Aparicio-Estrems, Guillermo
Gargallo-Peiró, Abel
Roca, Xevi
author_facet Aparicio-Estrems, Guillermo
Gargallo-Peiró, Abel
Roca, Xevi
contents We present a specific-purpose globalized and preconditioned Newton-CG solver to minimize a metric-aware curved high-order mesh distortion. The solver is specially devised to optimize curved high-order meshes for high polynomial degrees with a target metric featuring non-uniform sizing, high stretching ratios, and curved alignment -- exactly the features that stiffen the optimization problem. To this end, we consider two ingredients: a specific-purpose globalization and a specific-purpose Jacobi-$\text{iLDL}^{\text{T}}(0)$ preconditioning with varying accuracy and curvature tolerances (dynamic forcing terms) for the CG method. These improvements are critical in stiff problems because, without them, the large number of non-linear and linear iterations makes curved optimization impractical. Finally, to analyze the performance of our method, the results compare the specific-purpose solver with standard optimization methods. For this, we measure the matrix-vector products indicating the solver computational cost and the line-search iterations indicating the total amount of objective function evaluations. When we combine the globalization and the linear solver ingredients, we conclude that the specific-purpose Newton-CG solver reduces the total number of matrix-vector products by one order of magnitude. Moreover, the number of non-linear and line-search iterations is mainly smaller but of similar magnitude.
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spellingShingle A globalized and preconditioned Newton-CG solver for metric-aware curved high-order mesh optimization
Aparicio-Estrems, Guillermo
Gargallo-Peiró, Abel
Roca, Xevi
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
We present a specific-purpose globalized and preconditioned Newton-CG solver to minimize a metric-aware curved high-order mesh distortion. The solver is specially devised to optimize curved high-order meshes for high polynomial degrees with a target metric featuring non-uniform sizing, high stretching ratios, and curved alignment -- exactly the features that stiffen the optimization problem. To this end, we consider two ingredients: a specific-purpose globalization and a specific-purpose Jacobi-$\text{iLDL}^{\text{T}}(0)$ preconditioning with varying accuracy and curvature tolerances (dynamic forcing terms) for the CG method. These improvements are critical in stiff problems because, without them, the large number of non-linear and linear iterations makes curved optimization impractical. Finally, to analyze the performance of our method, the results compare the specific-purpose solver with standard optimization methods. For this, we measure the matrix-vector products indicating the solver computational cost and the line-search iterations indicating the total amount of objective function evaluations. When we combine the globalization and the linear solver ingredients, we conclude that the specific-purpose Newton-CG solver reduces the total number of matrix-vector products by one order of magnitude. Moreover, the number of non-linear and line-search iterations is mainly smaller but of similar magnitude.
title A globalized and preconditioned Newton-CG solver for metric-aware curved high-order mesh optimization
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13654