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Compatible finite element discretisations for the atmospheric equations of motion have recently attracted considerable interest. Semi-implicit timestepping methods require the repeated solution of a large saddle-point system of linear…

This paper presents and studies an approach for constructing auxiliary space preconditioners for finite element problems using a constrained nonconforming reformulation, that is based on a proposed modified version of the mortar method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Panayot S. Vassilevski

We consider here a cell-centered finite difference approximation of the Richards equation in three dimensions, averaging for interface values the hydraulic conductivity $K=K(p)$, a highly nonlinear function, by arithmetic, upstream, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Daniele Bertaccini , Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone

We develop robust solvers for a class of perturbed saddle-point problems arising in the study of a second-order elliptic equation in mixed form (in terms of flux and potential), and of the four-field formulation of Biot's consolidation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Wietse M. Boon , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

We present a parameter-robust preconditioner for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretization of a four-field formulation of Biot's consolidation model. We first determine a parameter-robust preconditioner for the full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Esteban Henríquez , Jeonghun J. Lee , Sander Rhebergen

This paper provides the first provable $\mathcal{O}(N \log N)$ algorithms for the linear system arising from the direct finite element discretization of the fourth-order equation with different boundary conditions on unstructured grids of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Shuo Zhang , Jinchao Xu

The numerical analysis of higher-order mixed finite-element discretizations for saddle-point problems, such as the Stokes equations, has been well-studied in recent years. While the theory and practice of such discretizations is now…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Amin Rafiei , Scott MacLachlan

In this work, we build on the discrete trace theory developed by Badia, Droniou, and Tushar (Foundations of Computational Mathematics, in press, 2025; \href{https://doi.org/10.1007/s10208-025-09734-6}{doi:10.1007/s10208-025-09734-6}) to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Santiago Badia , Jerome Droniou , Jordi Manyer , Jai Tushar

In this paper, a second order finite difference scheme is investigated for time-dependent one-side space fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients. The existing schemes for the equation with variable coefficients have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Xue-lei Lin , Pin Lyu , Michael K. Ng , Hai-Wei Sun , Seakweng Vong

We introduce a new preconditioner for a recently developed pressure-robust hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) finite element discretization of the Stokes equations. A feature of HDG methods is the straightforward elimination of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Sander Rhebergen , Garth N. Wells

This paper presents a large-scale parallel solver, specifically designed to tackle the challenges of solving high-dimensional and high-contrast linear systems in heat transfer topology optimization. The solver incorporates an interpolation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Yingjie Zhou , Changqing Ye , Yucheng Liu , Shubin Fu , Eric T. Chung

This work presents a novel agglomeration-based multilevel preconditioner designed to accelerate the convergence of iterative solvers for linear systems arising from the discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the monodomain model in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Marco Feder , Pasquale Claudio Africa

Finite volume methods for problems involving second order operators with full diffusion matrix can be used thanks to the definition of a discrete gradient for piecewise constant functions on unstructured meshes satisfying an orthogonality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Robert Eymard , Thierry Gallouët , Raphaèle Herbin

We consider discontinuous Galerkin methods for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem constrained by a convection-dominated problem. We prove global optimal convergence rates using an inf-sup condition, with the diffusion parameter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Sijing Liu , Valeria Simoncini

A Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) preconditioner is constructed and analyzed for the solution of composite Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of reaction-diffusion systems of ordinary and partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Ngoc Mai Monica Huynh , Fatemeh Chegini , Luca Franco Pavarino , Martin Weiser , Simone Scacchi

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White

We propose an unified algebraic approach for static condensation and hybridization, two popular techniques in finite element discretizations. The algebraic approach is supported by the construction of scalable solvers for problems involving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Veselin A. Dobrev , Tzanio V. Kolev , Chak S. Lee , Vladimir Z. Tomov , Panayot S. Vassilevski

We present a comparison of different multigrid approaches for the solution of systems arising from high-order continuous finite element discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations on complex geometries. We consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Hari Sundar , Georg Stadler , George Biros

We present an efficient matrix-free geometric multigrid method for the elastic Helmholtz equation, and a suitable discretization. Many discretization methods had been considered in the literature for the Helmholtz equations, as well as many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Rachel Yovel , Eran Treister

We present a novel linear solver that works well for large systems obtained from discretizing PDEs. It is robust and, for the examples we studied, the computational effort scales linearly with the number of equations. The algorithm is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Klaus Lackner , Ralph Menikoff