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We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the…

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We propose an explicit, oracle-free quantum framework for numerically simulating general linear partial differential equations (PDEs), extending previous work to incorporate (a) Robin boundary conditions - which include Neumann and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Nikita Guseynov , Xiajie Huang , Nana Liu

Most efficient linear solvers use composable algorithmic components, with the most common model being the combination of a Krylov accelerator and one or more preconditioners. A similar set of concepts may be used for nonlinear algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , Barry F. Smith , Xuemin Tu

The paper introduces a novel, hierarchical preconditioner based on nested dissection and hierarchical matrix compression. The preconditioner is intended for continuous and discontinuous Galerkin formulations of elliptic problems. We exploit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Boris Bonev , Jan S. Hesthaven

The quasilinearization method (QLM) of solving nonlinear differential equations is applied to the quantum mechanics by casting the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in the nonlinear Riccati form. The method, whose mathematical basis in physics was…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Krivec , V. B. Mandelzweig

In this work, we consider fracture propagation in nearly incompressible and (fully) incompressible materials using a phase-field formulation. We use a mixed form of the elasticity equation to overcome volume locking effects and develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Timo Heister , Katrin Mang , Thomas Wick

Many subsurface engineering applications involve tight-coupling between fluid flow, solid deformation, fracturing, and similar processes. To better understand the complex interplay of different governing equations, and therefore design…

Leveraging nonlinear parametrizations for model reduction can overcome the Kolmogorov barrier that affects transport-dominated problems. In this work, we build on the reduced dynamics given by Neural Galerkin schemes and propose to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Philipp Weder , Paul Schwerdtner , Benjamin Peherstorfer

The efficient solution of discretisations of coupled systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) is at the core of much of numerical simulation. Significant effort has been expended on scalable algorithms to precondition Krylov…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Robert C. Kirby , Lawrence Mitchell

We propose a Newton-based scheme, initialized by neural operator predictions, to accelerate the parametric solution of nonlinear problems in computational solid mechanics. First, a physics informed conditional neural field is trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kianoosh Taghikhani , Yusuke Yamazaki , Jerry Paul Varghese , Markus Apel , Reza Najian Asl , Shahed Rezaei

In this paper, we study fast iterative solvers for the solution of fourth order parabolic equations discretized by mixed finite element methods. We propose to use consistent mass matrix in the discretization and use lumped mass matrix to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Bin Zheng , Luoping Chen , Xiaozhe Hu , Long Chen , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Jinchao Xu

As integrated circuits become increasingly complex, the demand for efficient and accurate simulation solvers continues to rise. Traditional solvers often struggle with large-scale sparse systems, leading to prolonged simulation times and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Zijian Zhang , Rui Hong , Xuesong Chen , Shuting Cai

We present a modified version of the PRESB preconditioner for two-by-two block system of linear equations with the coefficient matrix $$\textbf{A}=\left(\begin{array}{cc} F & -G^* G & F \end{array}\right),$$ where $F\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Owe Axelsson , Dovod Khojasteh Slakuyeh

Large-scale contact mechanics simulations are crucial in many engineering fields such as structural design and manufacturing. In the frictionless case, contact can be modeled by minimizing an energy functional; however, these problems are…

Fourier solvers have become efficient tools to establish structure-property relations in heterogeneous materials. Introduced as an alternative to the Finite Element (FE) method, they are based on fixed-point solutions of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Jan Zeman , Tom W. J. de Geus , Jaroslav Vondřejc , Ron H. J. Peerlings , Marc G. D. Geers

Fully implicit Runge-Kutta (IRK) methods have many desirable accuracy and stability properties as time integration schemes, but high-order IRK methods are not commonly used in practice with large-scale numerical PDEs because of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Ben S. Southworth , Oliver Krzysik , Will Pazner

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model, a simplification of the Boltzmann equation, in the absence of boundary effect, converges to the Euler equations when the Knudsen number is small. In practice, however, Knudsen layers emerge at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Hongxu Chen , Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu

We devise 3-field and 4-field finite element approximations of a system describing the steady state of an incompressible heat-conducting fluid with implicit non-Newtonian rheology. We prove that the sequence of numerical approximations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Patrick Farrell , Pablo Alexei Gazca Orozco , Endre Süli

This paper introduces inexact versions of several block-splitting preconditioners for solving the three-by-three block linear systems arising from a special class of indefinite least squares problems. We first establish the convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Mohaddese Kaveh Shaldehi , Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh

Computing the solution of linear systems of equations is invariably the most time consuming task in the numerical solutions of PDEs in many fields of computational science. In this study, we focus on the numerical simulation of…

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