Publication
Nonlinear Optics, Multigrid Methods Parallel Computing: A case study
I. Martín, V.M. Pérez García, F. Tirado, L. Vázquez
SIAM News, April, 12-14 (1996).
MOLAB authors
Pérez García, Victor M.. 
Abstract
We discuss how to obtain numerical solutions of the
Maxwell-Bloch
equations on a mesh of processors. A full multigrid method (the FMVJ method)
is used to
solve the systems of equations arising at each temporal step when an
implicit numerical
scheme is employed to study this mathematical model from laser physics. This
work has
been done as an interdisciplinary collaboration between various departments at
Complutense University: Optics (experimental), Theoretical Physics
(modellization) and
Computer Sciences (implementation) together with applied matematicians from
other
universities (Castilla-La Mancha University in Spain and Shangai University
in China)
and has involved some feedback with the industry concerning
the problems appearing
in real CO$_2$ industrial lasers used for material processing.