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We present a convergent and scalable multigrid solver for high-frequency Helmholtz equations. Standard multigrid methods do not converge for high-frequency Helmholtz problems, and a common cure is adding a complex shift and using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Rachel Yovel , Eran Treister

This paper introduces a geometric multigrid preconditioner for the Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) designed to solve PDEs on complex geometries. While SBM simplifies mesh generation by using a non-conforming background grid, it often results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Michal Wichrowski

The recently developed Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method is a high-order discretization technique that comes with a direct solver. Results from previous papers demonstrate the method's ability to solve Helmholtz problems to high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Natalie Beams , Adrianna Gillman , Russell J. Hewett

This paper addresses several aspects of the linear Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method (HDG) for the Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary condition at high frequency. First, error estimates with explicit dependence on the wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Bingxin Zhu , Haijun Wu

This paper introduces a parallel directional fast multipole method (FMM) for solving N-body problems with highly oscillatory kernels, with a focus on the Helmholtz kernel in three dimensions. This class of oscillatory kernels requires a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , Jack Poulson , Kenneth Tran , Björn Engquist , Lexing Ying

We address in this thesis the current need to design new parallel algorithms and tools that ease the development of geodynamic modelling applications that are suited for today's and tomorrow's hardware. We present (1) the MATLAB HPC…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-07-19 Samuel Omlin , Ludovic Räss , Benjamin Malvoisin , Yury Y. Podladchikov

There has been a growing interest in parallel strategies for solving trajectory optimization problems. One key step in many algorithmic approaches to trajectory optimization is the solution of moderately-large and sparse linear systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Xueyi Bu , Brian Plancher

Despite hundreds of papers on preconditioned linear systems of equations, there remains a significant lack of comprehensive performance benchmarks comparing various preconditioners for solving symmetric positive definite (SPD) systems. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Marc A. Tunnell , David F. Gleich

We discuss the scalable parallel solution of the Poisson equation within a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for the simulation of electron beams in particle accelerators of irregular shape. The problem is discretized by Finite Differences.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 A. Adelmann , P. Arbenz , Y. Ineichen

A fast method is proposed for solving the high frequency Helmholtz equation. The building block of the new fast method is an overlapping source transfer domain decomposition method for layered medium, which is an extension of the source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Wei Leng

In this work, we address the efficient computation of parameterized systems of linear equations, with possible nonlinear parameter dependence. When the matrix is highly sensitive to the parameters, mean-based preconditioning might not be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Wouter Gerrit van Harten , Laura Scarabosio

We present an improved multigrid preconditioner for the acoustic Helmholtz equation with enhanced scalability. Standard multigrid fails to converge for the Helmholtz equation, and the well-known complex shifted Laplacian method overcomes it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Rachel Yovel , Yunhui He , Eran Treister

Persistent homology is a crucial invariant that is used in many areas to understand data. The $O(N^4)$ run time is a hindrance to its use on most large datasets. We give a parallelization method to utilize multi-core machines and clusters.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Michael G. Rawson

We develop and analyze new scheduling algorithms for solving sparse triangular linear systems (SpTRSV) in parallel. Our approach produces highly efficient synchronous schedules for the forward- and backward-substitution algorithm. Compared…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Toni Böhnlein , Pál András Papp , Raphael S. Steiner , Christos K. Matzoros , A. N. Yzelman

A numerical scheme is presented for solving the Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on piecewise smooth open curves, where the curves may have corners and multiple junctions. Existing integral equation methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Johan Helsing , Shidong Jiang

In this paper we present two strategies to enable "parallelization across the method" for spectral deferred corrections (SDC). Using standard low-order time-stepping methods in an iterative fashion, SDC can be seen as preconditioned Picard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Robert Speck

This paper presents algorithms for temporal parallelization of Bayesian smoothers. We define the elements and the operators to pose these problems as the solutions to all-prefix-sums operations for which efficient parallel scan-algorithms…

Computation · Statistics 2020-02-21 Simo Särkkä , Ángel F. García-Fernández

We present an explicit solver of the three-dimensional screened and unscreened Poisson's equation which combines accuracy, computational efficiency and versatility. The solver, based on a mixed plane-wave / interpolating scaling function…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-27 Alessandro Cerioni , Luigi Genovese , Alessandro Mirone , Vicente Armando Sole

This paper presents a fast iterative solver for Lippmann-Schwinger equation for high-frequency waves scattered by a smooth medium with a compactly supported inhomogeneity. The solver is based on the sparsifying preconditioner and a domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Hongkai Zhao

We present a preconditioning method for the multi-dimensional Helmholtz equation with smoothly varying coefficient. The method is based on a frame of functions, that approximately separates components associated with different singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-25 Christiaan C. Stolk