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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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Kolja Brix , Claudio Canuto , Wolfgang Dahmen

Interior point methods are widely used for different types of mathematical optimization problems. Many implementations of interior point methods in use today rely on direct linear solvers to solve systems of equations in each iteration. The…

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In this work, we propose a robust and easily implemented algebraic multigrid method as a stand-alone solver or a preconditioner in Krylov subspace methods for solving either symmetric and positive definite or saddle point linear systems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Huidong Yang

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

Coupled multiphysics problems often give rise to interface conditions naturally formulated in fractional Sobolev spaces. Here, both positive- and negative fractionality are common. When designing efficient solvers for discretizations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Trygve Bærland , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal

In the context of isogeometric analysis, we consider two discretization approaches that make the resulting stiffness matrix nonsymmetric even if the differential operator is self-adjoint. These are the collocation method and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Mattia Tani

The discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) methodology of Demkowicz and Gopalakrishnan [15,17] guarantees the optimality of the solution in an energy norm, and provides several features facilitating adaptive schemes. A key question that has…

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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…

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The novel contribution of this paper relies in the proposal of a fully implicit numerical method designed for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, in its convergence/stability analysis, and in the study of the related computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Matteo Semplice , Marco Donatelli , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

We investigate the performance of multigrid preconditioners for solving linear systems arising from finite element discretizations of elliptic interface problems using the Fictitious Domain with Distributed Lagrange Multipliers (FD-DLM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Chayapol Chaoveeraprasit

This work considers the iterative solution of large-scale problems subject to non-symmetric matrices or operators arising in discretizations of (port-)Hamiltonian partial differential equations. We consider problems governed by an operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Volker Mehrmann , Manuel Schaller , Martin Stoll

Advanced finite-element discretizations and preconditioners for models of poroelasticity have attracted significant attention in recent years. The equations of poroelasticity offer significant challenges in both areas, due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 James H. Adler , Yunhui He , Xiaozhe Hu , Scott MacLachlan , Peter Ohm

We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kai Weixian Lan , Elias Gueidon , Ayano Kaneda , Julian Panetta , Joseph Teran

We develop a parallel-in-time multigrid preconditioner for augmented systems. These saddle-point systems are foundational to numerical optimization. Our preconditioner, when paired with a suitable optimization method, accelerates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Radoslav Vuchkov , Eric C. Cyr , Aurya Javeed , Denis Ridzal

In this paper we study the conditioning of optimal control problems constrained by linear parabolic equations with Neumann boundary conditions. While we concentrate on a given end-time target function the results hold also when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Luise Blank

In this paper, we construct and analyze preconditioners for the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin discretization posed in the space $H(\mathrm{div})$. These discretizations are used as one component in exactly divergence-free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Will Pazner

Multi-level preconditioners for Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations are widely used to solve elliptic equations, and a main ingredient of such solvers is the interpolation operator to transfer information from the coarse to the fine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Jose Pablo Lucero Lorca , Martin Jakob Gander

We propose a novel preconditioned inexact primal-dual interior point method for constrained convex quadratic programming problems. The algorithm we describe invokes the preconditioned conjugate gradient method on a new reduced Schur…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Samah Karim , Edgar Solomonik

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…

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