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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…

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The discretization of constrained nonlinear optimization problems arising in the field of topology optimization yields algebraic systems which are challenging to solve in practice, due to pathological ill-conditioning, strong nonlinearity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Michal Kocvara , Daniel Loghin , James Turner

We consider discrete Poisson interface problems resulting from linear unfitted finite elements, also called cut finite elements (CutFEM). Three of these unfitted finite element methods known from the literature are studied. All three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Thomas Ludescher , Sven Gross , Arnold Reusken

The goal of this primer is to provide a relatively short exposition of the basics of multigrid methods, simplified by focusing on fundamental concepts in a variational setting. This is done by way of a quadratic energy minimization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Stephen F. McCormick , Rasmus Tamstorf

A multiscale optimization framework for problems over a space of Lipschitz continuous functions is developed. The method solves a coarse-grid discretization followed by linear interpolation to warm-start project gradient descent on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nicholas J. E. Richardson , Noah Marusenko , Michael P. Friedlander

As part of our development of a computer code to perform 3D `constrained evolution' of Einstein's equations in 3+1 form, we discuss issues regarding the efficient solution of elliptic equations on domains containing holes (i.e., excised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott H. Hawley , Richard A. Matzner

We investigate the performance of algebraic multigrid methods for the solution of the linear system of equations arising from a Virtual Element discretization. We provide numerical experiments on very general polygonal meshes for a model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Daniele Prada , Micol Pennacchio

We propose a locally conservative enriched Galerkin scheme that preserves the physical bounds for an elliptic problem. To this end, we use a substantial over-penalization of the discrete solution's jumps to obtain optimal convergence. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Philip L. Lederer , Andreas Rupp

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Miguel Zambrano , Sintya Serrano , Boyan S. Lazarov , Juan Galvis

We propose an augmented Lagrangian-based preconditioner to accelerate the convergence of Krylov subspace methods applied to linear systems of equations with a block three-by-three structure such as those arising from mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Fatemeh P. A. Beik , Michele Benzi

We propose in this paper a multilevel correction method to solve optimal control problems constrained by elliptic equations with the finite element method. In this scheme, solving optimization problem on the finest finite element space is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Hehu Xie , Ningning Yan

In this work, we investigate a neural network based solver for optimal control problems (without / with box constraint) for linear and semilinear second-order elliptic problems. It utilizes a coupled system derived from the first-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Yongcheng Dai , Bangti Jin , Ramesh Sau , Zhi Zhou

Given a multigrid procedure for linear systems with coefficient matrices $A_n$, we discuss the optimality of a related multigrid procedure with the same smoother and the same projector, when applied to properly related algebraic problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-03 Stefano Serra-Capizzano , Cristina Tablino Possio

We consider linear systems arising from the use of the finite element method for solving scalar linear elliptic problems. Our main result is that these linear systems, which are symmetric and positive semidefinite, are well approximated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Erik Boman , Bruce Hendrickson , Stephen Vavasis

We propose and investigate new robust preconditioners for space-time Isogeometric Analysis of parabolic evolution problems. These preconditioners are based on a time parallel multigrid method. We consider a decomposition of the space-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-27 Christoph Hofer , Ulrich Langer , Martin Neumüller

A balancing domain decomposition by constraints (BDDC) algorithm with adaptive primal constraints in variational form is introduced and analyzed for high-order mortar discretization of two-dimensional elliptic problems with high varying and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Jie Peng , Shi Shu , Junxian Wang

In recent publications, the author and his coworkers have shown robust approximation error estimates for B-splines of maximum smoothness and have proposed multigrid methods based on them. These methods allow to solve the linear system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Stefan Takacs

The aim of this paper is to design an efficient multigrid method for constrained convex optimization problems arising from discretization of some underlying infinite dimensional problems. Due to problem dependency of this approach, we only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Michal Kocvara , Sudaba Mohammed

Multilevel techniques are efficient approaches for solving the large linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations and other problems. While geometric multigrid requires detailed knowledge about the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Tareq. U. Zaman , Scott P. MacLachlan , Luke N. Olson , Matt West

We consider the numerical solution of time-dependent space tempered fractional diffusion equations. The use of Crank-Nicolson in time and of second-order accurate tempered weighted and shifted Gr\"unwald difference in space leads to dense…

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