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The solution of the Poisson equation is a ubiquitous problem in computational astrophysics. Most notably, the treatment of self-gravitating flows involves the Poisson equation for the gravitational field. In hydrodynamics codes using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Bernhard Müller , Conrad Chan

Mixed-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are characterized by coupled operators defined on domains of varying dimensions and pose significant computational challenges due to their inherent ill-conditioning. Moreover, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Nunzio Dimola , Nicola Rares Franco , Paolo Zunino

This paper is concerned with the design, analysis and implementation of preconditioning concepts for spectral Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic boundary value problems. While presently known techniques realize a growth of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Kolja Brix , Martin Campos Pinto , Claudio Canuto , Wolfgang Dahmen

For some typical and widely used non-convex half-quadratic regularization models and the Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximate Mumford-Shah model, based on the Kurdyka-\L ojasiewicz analysis and the recent nonconvex proximal algorithms, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Shengxiang Deng , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hongpeng Sun

Fully realizing the potential of multigrid solvers often requires custom algorithms for a given application model, discretizations and even regimes of interest, despite considerable effort from the applied math community to develop fully…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Mark F. Adams , Matthew K. Knepley

The $P_1$--nonconforming quadrilateral finite element space with periodic boundary condition is investigated. The dimension and basis for the space are characterized with the concept of minimally essential discrete boundary conditions. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Jaeryun Yim , Dongwoo Sheen

This work concerns the numerical analysis of the linear elasticity problem with a Robin boundary condition on a smooth domain. A finite element discretization is presented using high-order curved meshes in order to accurately discretize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Joyce Ghantous

This paper presents a scalable and robust solver for a cell-by-cell poroelasticity model, describing the mechanical interactions between brain cells embedded in extracellular space. Explicitly representing the complex cellular shapes, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Marius Causemann , Miroslav Kuchta

This paper considers the iterative solution of linear systems arising from discretization of the anisotropic radiative transfer equation with discontinuous elements on the sphere. In order to achieve robust convergence behavior in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Jürgen Dölz , Olena Palii , Matthias Schlottbom

The implementation of efficient multigrid preconditioners for elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) is a challenge due to the complexity of the resulting algorithms and corresponding computer code. For sophisticated finite element…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Lawrence Mitchell , Eike Hermann Müller

Many problems in fluid modelling require the efficient solution of highly anisotropic elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in "flat" domains. For example, in numerical weather- and climate-prediction an elliptic PDE for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Andreas Dedner , Eike Hermann Müller , Robert Scheichl

Calibration of unknown model parameters is a common task in many ocean model applications. We present an adjoint-based optimization of an unstructured mesh shallow water model for the Baltic Sea. Spatially varying bottom friction parameter…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Tuomas Kärnä , Joseph G. Wallwork , Stephan C. Kramer

Internal interfaces in a domain could exist as a material defect or they can appear due to propagations of cracks. Discretization of such geometries and solution of the contact problem on the internal interfaces can be computationally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Hardik Kothari , Rolf Krause

An efficient nonlinear multigrid method for a mixed finite element method of the Darcy-Forchheimer model is constructed in this paper. A Peaceman-Rachford type iteration is used as a smoother to decouple the nonlinearity from the divergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Jian Huang , Long Chen , Hongxing Rui

I propose a vertex patch smoother where local problems are solved inexactly by a nested, matrix-free p-multigrid, creating a multigrid-within-multigrid framework. A single iteration of the local solver can be evaluated with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Michał Wichrowski

Coarse grained, macroscale, spatial discretisations of nonlinear nonautonomous partial differential\difference equations are given novel support by centre manifold theory. Dividing the physical domain into overlapping macroscale elements…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-12-31 J. E. Bunder , A. J. Roberts

The performance of optimization methods is often tied to the spectrum of the objective Hessian. Yet, conventional assumptions, such as smoothness, do often not enable us to make finely-grained convergence statements -- particularly not for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Nikita Doikov , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Optimal exploitation of supercomputing resources for the evaluation of electrostatic forces remains a challenge in molecular dynamics simulations of very large systems. The most efficient methods are currently based on particle-mesh Ewald…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Federica Troni , Davide Grassano , Jayashree Narayan , Benoît Roux , Sara Bonella

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

For the Poisson equation posed in a domain containing a large number of polygonal perforations, we propose a low-dimensional coarse approximation space based on a coarse polygonal partitioning of the domain. Similarly to other multiscale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Miranda Boutilier , Konstantin Brenner , Victorita Dolean