Coarse grid acceleration of a parallel block preconditioner

A block preconditioner is considered in a parallel computing environment. This preconditioner has good parallel properties, however, the convergence deteriorates when the number of blocks increases. Two different techniques are studied to accelerate the convergence: overlapping at the interfaces and using a coarse grid correction. It appears that the latter technique is indeed scalable, so the wall clock time is constant when the number of blocks increases. Furthermore, the method is easily added to an existing solution code.