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Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer an enormous flexibility regarding local grid refinement and variation of polynomial degrees for a variety of different problem classes. With a focus on diffusion problems, we consider DG…

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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…

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In [McDonald, Pestana and Wathen, \textit{SIAM J. Sci. Comput.}, 40 (2018), pp. A1012--A1033], a block circulant preconditioner is proposed for all-at-once linear systems arising from evolutionary partial differential equations, in which…

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We study the convergence of iterative linear solvers for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of systems of hyperbolic conservation laws with polygonal mesh elements compared with that of traditional triangular elements. We solve the…

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In this paper, we develop two classes of robust preconditioners for the structure-preserving discretization of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system. By studying the well-posedness of the discrete system, we design block…

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We study a low-rank iterative solver for the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flows with a stochastic viscosity. The equations are discretized using the stochastic Galerkin method, and we consider an all-at-once…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Howard C. Elman , Tengfei Su

This article investigates matrix-free higher-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of the Navier--Stokes equations for incompressible flows with variable viscosity. The viscosity field may be prescribed analytically or governed by a…

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This work is on a user-friendly reduced basis method for solving a family of parametric PDEs by preconditioned Krylov subspace methods including the conjugate gradient method, generalized minimum residual method, and bi-conjugate gradient…

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A preconditioning strategy is proposed for the iterative solve of large numbers of linear systems with parameter-dependent matrix and right-hand side which arise during the computation of solution statistics of stochastic elliptic partial…

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We study a multigrid method for solving large linear systems of equations with tensor product structure. Such systems are obtained from stochastic finite element discretization of stochastic partial differential equations such as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Howard C. Elman , Tengfei Su

The block structure of double saddle-point problems has prompted extensive research into efficient preconditioners. This paper introduces a novel class of three-by-three block preconditioners tailored for such systems from the…

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Preconditioning techniques are crucial for enhancing the efficiency of solving large-scale linear equation systems that arise from partial differential equation (PDE) discretization. These techniques, such as Incomplete Cholesky…

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Provable stable arbitrary order symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin (SIP) discretisations of variable viscosity, incompressible Stokes flow utilising $Q^2_k$--$Q_{k-1}$ elements and hierarchical Legendre basis polynomials are…

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We consider the problem of iteratively solving large and sparse double saddle-point systems arising from the stationary Stokes-Darcy equations in two dimensions, discretized by the Marker-and-Cell (MAC) finite difference method. We analyze…

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This paper develops and analyses semi-discrete numerical method for two dimensional Vlasov-Stokes' system with periodic boundary condition. The method is based on coupling of semi-discrete discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov…

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This paper presents a novel space-time topology optimisation framework for time-dependent thermal conduction problems, aiming to significantly reduce the time-to-solution. By treating time as an additional spatial dimension, we discretise…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Joe Alexandersen , Magnus Appel

Circulant preconditioners are commonly used to accelerate the rate of convergence of iterative methods when solving linear systems of equations with a Toeplitz matrix. Block extensions that can be applied when the system has a block…

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Gaussian process hyperparameter optimization requires linear solves with, and log-determinants of, large kernel matrices. Iterative numerical techniques are becoming popular to scale to larger datasets, relying on the conjugate gradient…

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We study first-order methods with preconditioning for solving structured nonlinear convex optimization problems. We propose a new family of preconditioners generated by symmetric polynomials. They provide first-order optimization methods…

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