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We present a constructive method to devise boundary conditions for solutions of second-order elliptic equations so that these solutions satisfy specific qualitative properties such as: (i) the norm of the gradient of one solution is bounded…
We consider a mixed dimensional elliptic partial differential equation posed in a bulk domain with a large number of embedded interfaces. In particular, we study well-posedness of the problem and regularity of the solution. We also propose…
Multiscale or multiphysics problems often involve coupling of partial differential equations posed on domains of different dimensionality. In this work we consider a simplified model problem of a 3d-1d coupling and the main objective is to…
In this article, we present a parallel discretization and solution method for parabolic problems with a higher number of space dimensions. It consists of a parallel-in-time approach using the multigrid reduction-in-time algorithm MGRIT with…
In this paper, new unfitted mixed finite elements are presented for elliptic interface problems with jump coefficients. Our model is based on a fictitious domain formulation with distributed Lagrange multiplier. The relevance of our…
I present a motivation of several areas where the Multigrid techniques can be employed. I present typical areas where the multigrid solver might be employed. I give an introduction to smoothers and how one might choose a preconditionor as…
Domain decomposition (DD) methods are a natural way to take advantage of parallel computers when solving large scale linear systems. Their scalability depends on the design of the coarse space used in the two-level method. The analysis of…
Dual decomposition approaches in nonconvex optimization may suffer from a duality gap. This poses a challenge when applying them directly to nonconvex problems such as MAP-inference in a Markov random field (MRF) with continuous state…
Uni- and bivariate data smoothing with spline functions is a well established method in nonparametric regression analysis. The extension to multivariate data is straightforward, but suffers from exponentially increasing memory and…
In the past decade, a combination of unfitted finite elements (or XFEM) with the Nitsche method has become a popular discretization method for elliptic interface problems. This development started with the introduction and analysis of this…
A preconditioning strategy is proposed for the iterative solve of large numbers of linear systems with parameter-dependent matrix and right-hand side which arise during the computation of solution statistics of stochastic elliptic partial…
In this paper we use variational methods to establish the existence of solutions for a class of nonlinear elliptic problems involving a combined convolution-type and Hardy nonlinearity with subcritical and critical growth.
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…
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…
In this paper, we develop subspace correction preconditioners for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations of elliptic problems with $hp$-refinement. These preconditioners are based on the decomposition of the DG finite element space…
In this paper we design and analyze a uniform preconditioner for a class of high order Discontinuous Galerkin schemes. The preconditioner is based on a space splitting involving the high order conforming subspace and results from the…
Elliptic partial differential equations are important both from application and analysis points of views. In this paper we apply the Closest Point Method to solving elliptic equations on general curved surfaces. Based on the closest point…
For a second-order elliptic equation of nondivergence form in the plane, we investigate conditions on the coefficients which imply that all strong solutions have first-order derivatives that are Lipschitz continuous or differentiable at a…
This article presents a method for solving large-scale linear inverse problems regular- ized with a nonlinear, edge-preserving penalty term such as the total variation or Perona-Malik. In the proposed scheme, the nonlinearity is handled…
Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) frequently arise in continuum descriptions of physical processes relevant to science and engineering. Multilevel preconditioners represent a family of scalable techniques for solving discrete…