Title
Hierarchical Optimization Time Integration for CFL-Rate MPM Stepping
Abstract
AbstractWe propose Hierarchical Optimization Time Integration (HOT) for efficient implicit timestepping of the material point method (MPM) irrespective of simulated materials and conditions. HOT is an MPM-specialized hierarchical optimization algorithm that solves nonlinear timestep problems for large-scale MPM systems near the CFL limit. HOT provides convergent simulations out of the box across widely varying materials and computational resolutions without parameter tuning. As an implicit MPM timestepper accelerated by a custom-designed Galerkin multigrid wrapped in a quasi-Newton solver, HOT is both highly parallelizable and robustly convergent. As we show in our analysis, HOT maintains consistent and efficient performance even as we grow stiffness, increase deformation, and vary materials over a wide range of finite strain, elastodynamic, and plastic examples. Through careful benchmark ablation studies, we compare the effectiveness of HOT against seemingly plausible alternative combinations of MPM with standard multigrid and other Newton-Krylov models. We show how these alternative designs result in severe issues and poor performance. In contrast, HOT outperforms existing state-of-the-art, heavily optimized implicit MPM codes with an up to 10× performance speedup across a wide range of challenging benchmark test simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3386760
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Material point method (MPM), optimization integrator, quasi-Newton, multigrid
Journal
39
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0730-0301
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
42
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wang Xinlei130.39
Minchen Li2174.15
Fang Yu37616.84
Xinxin Zhang440.73
Ming Gao5615.86
Min Tang662351.33
Danny M. Kaufman735126.91
Chenfanfu Jiang834524.30