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The goal of this work is to present a fast and viable approach for the numerical solution of the high-contrast state problems arising in topology optimization. The optimization process is iterative, and the gradients are obtained by an…

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Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer an enormous flexibility regarding local grid refinement and variation of polynomial degrees for a variety of different problem classes. With a focus on diffusion problems, we consider DG…

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This paper explores preconditioning the normal equation for non-symmetric square linear systems arising from PDE discretization, focusing on methods like CGNE and LSQR. The concept of ``normal'' preconditioning is introduced and a strategy…

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We consider the use of multipreconditioning, which allows for multiple preconditioners to be applied in parallel, on high-frequency Helmholtz problems. Typical applications present challenging sparse linear systems which are complex…

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We present a new solver for coupled nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The solver is based on pseudo-spectral collocation with domain decomposition and can handle one- to three-dimensional problems. It has three…

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Gaussian processes provide probabilistic surrogates for various applications including classification, uncertainty quantification, and optimization. Using a gradient-enhanced covariance matrix can be beneficial since it provides a more…

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We propose a simple domain decomposition method for $d$-dimensional elliptic PDEs which involves an overlapping decomposition into local subdomain problems and a global coarse problem. It relies on a space-filling curve to create equally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Michael Griebel , Marc-Alexander Schweitzer , Lukas Troska

Isogeometric analysis uses the same class of basis functions for both, representing the geometry of the computational domain and approximating the solution. In practical applications, geometrical patches are used in order to get flexibility…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Ulrich Langer , Stephen Edward Moore

Realistic physical phenomena exhibit random fluctuations across many scales in the input and output processes. Models of these phenomena require stochastic PDEs. For three-dimensional coupled (vector-valued) stochastic PDEs (SPDEs), for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Ajit Desai , Mohammad Khalil , Chris L. Pettit , Dominique Poirel , Abhijit Sarkar

This paper addresses the efficient solution of linear systems arising from curl-conforming finite element discretizations of $H(\mathrm{curl})$ elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. We first employ the discrete form of a…

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The use of the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method for computing the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimator of the General Linear Model (GLM) is considered. The GLS estimator is expressed in terms of the solution of an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Paolo Foschi

Domain decomposition (DD) methods are widely used as preconditioner techniques. Their effectiveness relies on the choice of a locally constructed coarse space. Thus far, this construction was mostly achieved using non-assembled matrices…

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This paper describes an interdisciplinary approach to geometry modeling of geospatial boundaries. The objective is to extract surfaces from irregular spatial patterns using differential geometry and obtain coherent directional predictions…

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Large linear systems are ubiquitous in modern computational science and engineering. The main recipe for solving them is the use of Krylov subspace iterative methods with well-designed preconditioners. Recently, GNNs have been shown to be a…

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Mathematical modeling of many physical processes such as diffusion, viscosity of fluids and combustion involves differential equations with small coefficients of higher derivatives. These may be small diffusion coefficients for modeling the…

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In this paper a discretization based on discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for an elliptic two-dimensional problem with discontinuous coefficients is considered. The problem is posed on a polygonal region $\Omega$ which is a union of $N$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Maksymilian Dryja , Juan Galvis , Marcus Sarkis

This paper constitutes our initial effort in developing sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). Over the past few decades, DG methods have gained popularity in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Zixuan Wang , Qi Tang , Wei Guo , Yingda Cheng

We consider one-level additive Schwarz domain decomposition preconditioners for the Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients (modelling wave propagation in heterogeneous media), subject to boundary conditions that include wave…

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