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The discretization of the double-layer potential integral equation for the interior Dirichlet Laplace problem in a domain with smooth boundary results in a linear system that has a bounded condition number. Thus, the number of iterations…
An all-at-once linear system arising from the nonlinear tempered fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients is studied. Firstly, the nonlinear and linearized implicit schemes are proposed to approximate such the nonlinear…
In this work, we propose a robust and easily implemented algebraic multigrid method as a stand-alone solver or a preconditioner in Krylov subspace methods for solving either symmetric and positive definite or saddle point linear systems of…
We consider symmetric positive definite preconditioners for multiple saddle-point systems of block tridiagonal form, which can be applied within the MINRES algorithm. We describe such a preconditioner for which the preconditioned matrix has…
Pre-conditioning is a well-known concept that can significantly improve the convergence of optimization algorithms. For noise-free problems, where good pre-conditioners are not known a priori, iterative linear algebra methods offer one way…
Due to the wide separation of time scales in geophysical fluid dynamics, semi-implicit time integrators are commonly used in operational atmospheric forecast models. They guarantee the stable treatment of fast (acoustic and gravity) waves,…
The solution of systems of linear(ized) equations lies at the heart of many problems in Scientific Computing. In particular for systems of large dimension, iterative methods are a primary approach. Stationary iterative methods are generally…
We deal with interval parametric systems of linear equations and the goal is to solve such systems, which basically comes down to finding an enclosure for a parametric solution set. Obviously we want this enclosure to be as tight as…
Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including carbon sequestration, contaminant remediation, and groundwater management. Typically, this process is modeled by a nonlinear system of partial differential…
We propose a two-level nested preconditioned iterative scheme for solving sparse linear systems of equations in which the coefficient matrix is symmetric and indefinite with relatively small number of negative eigenvalues. The proposed…
Incomplete factorizations have long been popular general-purpose algebraic preconditioners for solving large sparse linear systems of equations. Guaranteeing the factorization is breakdown free while computing a high quality preconditioner…
In this research, to solve the large indefinite least squares problem, we firstly transform its normal equation into a sparse block three-by-three linear systems, then use GMRES method with an accelerated preconditioner to solve it. The…
The discretization of robust quadratic optimal control problems under uncertainty using the finite element method and the stochastic collocation method leads to large saddle-point systems, which are fully coupled across the random…
In this paper we propose an efficiently preconditioned Newton method for the computation of the leftmost eigenpairs of large and sparse symmetric positive definite matrices. A sequence of preconditioners based on the BFGS update formula is…
A primary computational problem in kernel regression is solution of a dense linear system with the $N\times N$ kernel matrix. Because a direct solution has an O($N^3$) cost, iterative Krylov methods are often used with fast matrix-vector…
This paper presents our work on developing parallel computational methods for two-phase flow on modern parallel computers, where techniques for linear solvers and nonlinear methods are studied and the standard and inexact Newton methods are…
In this paper, we propose a descent method for composite optimization problems with linear operators. Specifically, we first design a structure-exploiting preconditioner tailored to the linear operator so that the resulting preconditioned…
We introduce a new general purpose multiresolution preconditioner for symmetric linear systems. Most existing multiresolution preconditioners use some standard wavelet basis that relies on knowledge of the geometry of the underlying domain.…
It is tested whether machine learning methods can be used for preconditioning to increase the performance of the linear solver -- the backbone of the semi-implicit, grid-point model approach for weather and climate models. Embedding the…
Large linear systems are ubiquitous in modern computational science and engineering. The main recipe for solving them is the use of Krylov subspace iterative methods with well-designed preconditioners. Recently, GNNs have been shown to be a…