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This article presents a fast solver for the dense "frontal" matrices that arise from the multifrontal sparse elimination process of 3D elliptic PDEs. The solver relies on the fact that these matrices can be efficiently represented as a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Amirhossein Aminfar , Sivaram Ambikasaran , Eric Darve

We introduce a fast direct solver for variable-coefficient elliptic partial differential equations on surfaces based on the hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov method. The method takes as input an unstructured, high-order quadrilateral mesh of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Daniel Fortunato

Simulating and developing large rectangularly shaped arrays with equidistant interspacing is challenging as the computational complexity grows quickly with array size. However, the geometrical shape of the array, appropriately meshed, leads…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Harald Hultin , Lucas Åkerstedt , B. L. G. Jonsson

A linearly implicit conservative difference scheme is applied to discretize the attractive coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with fractional Laplacian. Complex symmetric linear systems can be obtained, and the system matrices are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Yan Cheng , Xi Yang

We propose a localized divide and conquer algorithm for inverse factorization $S^{-1} = ZZ^*$ of Hermitian positive definite matrices $S$ with localized structure, e.g. exponential decay with respect to some given distance function on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Emanuel H. Rubensson , Anton G. Artemov , Anastasia Kruchinina , Elias Rudberg

Factorization of large dense matrices are ubiquitous in engineering and data science applications, e.g. preconditioners for iterative boundary integral solvers, frontal matrices in sparse multifrontal solvers, and computing the determinant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Qianxiang Ma , Sameer Deshmukh , Rio Yokota

The objective of this study is to present a novel, efficient, and fast direct method for solving linear systems of equations whose coefficient matrix is a tridiagonal Quasi-Toeplitz matrix. Such matrices are frequently encountered in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Shahin Hasanbeigi

We describe a fast, direct solver for elliptic partial differential equations on a two-dimensional hierarchy of adaptively refined, Cartesian meshes. Our solver, inspired by the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method introduced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Damyn Chipman , Donna Calhoun , Carsten Burstedde

Designing the topology of three-dimensional structures is a challenging problem due to its memory and time consumption. In this paper, we present a robust and efficient algorithm for solving large-scale 3D topology optimization problems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Alfredo Vitorino , Francisco A. M. Gomes

Inversion of sparse matrices with standard direct solve schemes is robust, but computationally expensive. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, demonstrate better scalability; but, need to be used with an appropriate preconditioner (e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Hadi Pouransari , Pieter Coulier , Eric Darve

We present a fast iterative solver for scattering problems in 2D, where a penetrable object with compact support is considered. By representing the scattered field as a volume potential in terms of the Green's function, we arrive at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Vaishnavi Gujjula , Sivaram Ambikasaran

The large sparse linear systems arising from the finite element or finite difference discretization of elliptic PDEs can be solved directly via, e.g., nested dissection or multifrontal methods. Such techniques reorder the nodes in the grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Adrianna Gillman , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This manuscript presents an efficient solver for the linear system that arises from the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) discretization of three dimensional variable coefficient Helmholtz problems. Previous work on the HPS method has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 José Pablo Lucero Lorca , Natalie Beams , Damien Beecroft , Adrianna Gillman

This paper describes the implementation of a new interior point solver for linear programming for the open-source optimization library HiGHS. The solver uses a direct factorisation to solve the Newton systems, choosing the best approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Filippo Zanetti , Jacek Gondzio

The high computational cost involved in modeling of the progressive fracture simulations using large discrete lattice networks stems from the requirement to solve {\it a new large set of linear equations} every time a new lattice bond is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Phani Kumar V. V. Nukala , Srdjan Simunovic

The construction of robust solvers for linear systems obtained from the discretization of partial differential equations using Isogeometric Analysis is challenging since the condition number of the system matrix not only grows with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Monica Montardini , Stefan Takacs , Mattia Tani

In transient simulations of particulate Stokes flow, to accurately capture the interaction between the constituent particles and the confining wall, the discretization of the wall often needs to be locally refined in the region approached…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Yabin Zhang , Adrianna Gillman , Shravan Veerapaneni

We present a family of fast and accurate Dijkstra-like solvers for the eikonal equation and factored eikonal equation which compute solutions on a regular grid by solving local variational minimization problems. Our methods converge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Samuel F. Potter , Maria K. Cameron

We provide a computational framework for approximating a class of structured matrices; here, the term structure is very general, and may refer to a regular sparsity pattern (e.g., block-banded), or be more highly structured (e.g., symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Misha E. Kilmer , Arvind K. Saibaba

Motivated by recent Linear Programming solvers, we design dynamic data structures for maintaining the inverse of an $n\times n$ real matrix under $\textit{low-rank}$ updates, with polynomially faster amortized running time. Our data…

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