Numerical simulation of compressible flows with the aid of multigrid methods

We deal with the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations describing a motion of viscous compressible flows. The governing equations are discretized with the aid of discontinuous Galerkin finite element method which is based on a discontinuous piecewise polynomial approximation. The discretizations leads to a large nonlinear algebraic system. In order to solve this system efficiently, we develop the so-called p-multigrid solution strategy which employ as a projec- tion and a restriction operators the L2 -projection in the spaces of polynomial functions on each element separately. The p-multigrid technique is studied, deve- loped and implemented in the code ADGFEM. The computational performance of the method is presented