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Venkata S Arikatla¹, Suvranu De

¹Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,Troy, NY, USA. aarikav@rpi.edu

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We developed a modified multigrid V-cycle (MMgV) solver for virtual reality simulations. This approach efficiently handles multi-body constraints, achieving optimal performance for complex interactive simulations.

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Area of Science:

Computer Science
Computational Physics
Virtual Reality

Background:

Multigrid algorithms offer theoretically optimal linear scaling with system size.
Interactive simulations require efficient methods for handling multi-body constraints.
Existing multigrid methods may struggle with complex constraint resolution.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel multigrid algorithm for virtual reality simulations.
To integrate multi-body constraint resolution into multigrid solvers.
To achieve theoretically optimal performance in interactive simulations with constraints.

Main Methods:

Developed a modified block Gauss-Seidel (MBGS) smoother capable of incorporating constraints.
Integrated the MBGS smoother into a multigrid V-cycle framework.
Introduced corrections within the V-cycle to handle constraints effectively, forming the modified multigrid V-cycle (MMgV).

Main Results:

The proposed MMgV solver successfully incorporates and resolves multi-body constraints.
Numerical results demonstrate that the MMgV solver achieves linear performance scaling.
The method maintains the efficiency characteristic of standard multigrid schemes.

Conclusions:

The modified multigrid V-cycle (MMgV) is an effective solver for virtual reality simulations with multi-body constraints.
This approach combines the efficiency of multigrid algorithms with robust constraint handling.
The MMgV solver offers a promising solution for high-performance interactive simulations.