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The solution to the Poisson equation arising from the spectral element discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation requires robust preconditioning strategies. One such strategy is multigrid. To realize the potential of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Malachi Phillips , Paul Fischer

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

The paper is devoted to the spectral analysis of effective preconditioners for linear systems obtained via a Finite Element approximation to diffusion-dominated convection-diffusion equations. We consider a model setting in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Alessandro Russo , Stefano Serra Capizzano , Cristina Tablino Possio

A method is presented to include irregular domain boundaries in a geometric multigrid solver. Dirichlet boundary conditions can be imposed on an irregular boundary defined by a level set function. Our implementation employs quadtree/octree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Jannis Teunissen , Francesca Schiavello

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 propose a preconditioner to accelerate the convergence of the GMRES iterative method for solving the system of linear equations obtained from discretize-then-optimize approach applied to optimal control problems constrained by a partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Hamid Mirchi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

We consider the finite element discretization and the iterative solution of singularly perturbed elliptic reaction-diffusion equations in three-dimensional computational domains. These equations arise from the optimality conditions for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Ulrich Langer , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

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

The paper considers grad-div stabilized equal-order finite elements (FE) methods for the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. A block triangular preconditioner for the resulting system of algebraic equations is proposed which is closely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yunhui He , Maxim Olshanskii

This paper is part of a series developing $C^0$ finite element methods for fourth-order elliptic equations on polygonal domains. Here, we investigate how boundary conditions influence the design of effective $C^0$ schemes, specifically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Xihao Zhang , Hengguang Li , Nianyu Yi , Peimeng Yin

Unfitted finite element methods, e.g., extended finite element techniques or the so-called finite cell method, have a great potential for large scale simulations, since they avoid the generation of body-fitted meshes and the use of graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Santiago Badia , Francesc Verdugo

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhendong Li , Akwum Onwunta , Bedřich Sousedík

We introduce a unified framework for computing approximately-optimal preconditioners for solving linear and non-linear systems of equations. We demonstrate that the condition number minimization problem, under structured transformations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 M. Levent Doğan , Alperen Ergür , Elias Tsigaridas

Numerical solution of discrete PDEs corresponding to saddle point problems is highly relevant to physical systems such as Stokes flow. However, scaling up numerical solvers for such systems is often met with challenges in efficiency and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Yutian Tao , Eftychios Sifakis

Solving sparse linear systems from discretized PDEs is challenging. Direct solvers have in many cases quadratic complexity (depending on geometry), while iterative solvers require problem dependent preconditioners to be robust and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Kai Yang , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

We propose a fourth-order cut-cell method for solving Poisson's equations in three-dimensional irregular domains. Major distinguishing features of our method include (a) applicable to arbitrarily complex geometries, (b) high order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Yixiao Qian , Weizhen Li , Yan Tan , Qinghai Zhang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Amin Rafiei , Scott MacLachlan

In this paper, we study the biharmonic equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a polygonal domain. In particular, we propose a method that effectively decouples the fourth-order problem into a system of two Poison equations and one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Hengguang Li , Charuka D. Wickramasinghe , Peimeng Yin

In this paper we present a unified framework for constructing spectrally equivalent low-order-refined discretizations for the high-order finite element de Rham complex. This theory covers diffusion problems in $H^1$, $H({\rm curl})$, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Will Pazner , Tzanio Kolev , Clark Dohrmann