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This manuscript is the second in a series presenting fast direct solution techniques for solving two-dimensional wave scattering problems from quasi-periodic multilayered structures. The fast direct solvers presented in the series are for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Yabin Zhang , Adrianna Gillman

We analyze adaptive mesh-refining algorithms for conforming finite element discretizations of certain non-linear second-order partial differential equations. We allow continuous polynomials of arbitrary, but fixed polynomial order. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Michael Feischl , Thomas Führer , Dirk Praetorius

We present a fully iterative adaptive algorithm for the numerical minimization of strongly convex energy functionals in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approach, which we first present in abstract form, generates a hierarchical sequence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Raphael Leu , Thomas P. Wihler

We propose a general algorithm for non-conforming adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) of unstructured meshes in high-order finite element codes. Our focus is on h-refinement with a fixed polynomial order. The algorithm handles triangular,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Jakub Červený , Veselin Dobrev , Tzanio Kolev

The paper describes a sparse direct solver for the linear systems that arise from the discretization of an elliptic PDE on a two dimensional domain. The scheme decomposes the domain into thin subdomains, or ``slabs'' and uses a two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We analyze a goal-oriented adaptive algorithm that aims to efficiently compute the quantity of interest $G(u^\star)$ with a linear goal functional $G$ and the solution $u^\star$ to a general second-order nonsymmetric linear elliptic partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Philipp Bringmann , Maximilian Brunner , Dirk Praetorius , Julian Streitberger

We formulate and analyze a goal-oriented adaptive finite element method for a symmetric linear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) that can simultaneously deal with multiple linear goal functionals. In each step of the algorithm,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Roland Becker , Maximilian Brunner , Paula Hilbert , Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

The linear equations that arise in interior methods for constrained optimization are sparse symmetric indefinite and become extremely ill-conditioned as the interior method converges. These linear systems present a challenge for existing…

We design an adaptive unfitted finite element method on the Cartesian mesh with hanging nodes. We derive an hp-reliable and efficient residual type a posteriori error estimate on K-meshes. A key ingredient is a novel hp-domain inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Zhiming Chen , Ke Li , Xueshuang Xiang

Exact solution of hard combinatorial optimization problems often relies on strong convex relaxations, but solving these relaxations repeatedly inside a branch-and-bound algorithm can be prohibitively expensive. Hence, we consider this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hao Chen , Chendi Qian , Christopher Morris , Andrea Lodi , Can Li

We consider a class of linear programs on graphs with total variation regularization and a budgetary constraint. For these programs, we give a characterization of basic solutions in terms of rooted spanning forests with orientation on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dominic Yang

Maxwell interface problems are of great importance in many electromagnetic applications. Unfitted mesh methods are especially attractive in 3D computation as they can circumvent generating complex 3D interface-fitted meshes. However, many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Long Chen , Ruchi Guo , Jun Zou

To improve the computational efficiencies of the real-space orbital-free density functional theory, this work develops a new single-grid solver by directly providing the closed-form solution to the inner iteration and using an improved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Ling-Ze Bu , Wei Wang

This paper proposes an arc-search interior-point algorithm for the nonlinear constrained optimization problem. The proposed algorithm uses the second-order derivatives to construct a search arc that approaches the optimizer. Because the arc…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Yaguang Yang

The forest-of-octrees approach to parallel adaptive mesh refinement and coarsening (AMR) has recently been demonstrated in the context of a number of large-scale PDE-based applications. Although linear octrees, which store only leaf…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Tobin Isaac , Carsten Burstedde , Lucas C. Wilcox , Omar Ghattas

A scalable algorithm for solving compact banded linear systems on distributed memory architectures is presented. The proposed method factorizes the original system into two levels of memory hierarchies, and solves it using parallel cyclic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Hang Song , Kristen V. Matsuno , Jacob R. West , Akshay Subramaniam , Aditya S. Ghate , Sanjiva K. Lele

This paper is concerned with the design and analysis of a fully adaptive eigenvalue solver for linear symmetric operators. After transforming the original problem into an equivalent one formulated on $\ell_2$, the space of square summable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-11-08 W. Dahmen , T. Rohwedder , R. Schneider , A. Zeiser

This article is concerned with the numerical solution of convex variational problems. More precisely, we develop an iterative minimisation technique which allows for the successive enrichment of an underlying discrete approximation space in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Paul Houston , Thomas P. Wihler

We present a novel algorithm attaining excessively fast, the sought solution of linear systems of equations. The algorithm is short in its basic formulation and, by definition, vectorized, while the memory allocation demands are trivial,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Nikolaos P. Bakas

This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Stefan Frei , Tobias Knoke , Marc C. Steinbach , Anne-Kathrin Wenske , Thomas Wick