191 1997 Rickard Enander and Erik Sterner erik@tdb.uu.se Analysis of internal boundary conditions and communication strategies for multigrid multiblock methods Abstract When the steady state solution of a PDE is obtained by a multigrid method on a mesh consisting of a number of blocks the performance will differ from the single block case. In this report we identify and analyze the mechanisms behind this difference by studying simple model problems in one space dimension.