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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Fatemeh P. A. Beik , Michele Benzi

We investigate the regularizing behavior of an iterative Krylov subspace method for the solution of linear inverse problems in precisions lower than double. Recent works have considered the projection of iterated Tikhonov methods using…

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We develop a simple algorithmic framework to solve large-scale symmetric positive definite linear systems. At its core, the framework relies on two components: (1) a norm-convergent iterative method (i.e. smoother) and (2) a preconditioner.…

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We investigate the performance of multigrid preconditioners for solving linear systems arising from finite element discretizations of elliptic interface problems using the Fictitious Domain with Distributed Lagrange Multipliers (FD-DLM)…

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This work presents a multigrid preconditioned high order immersed finite difference solver to accurately and efficiently solve the Poisson equation on complex 2D and 3D domains. The solver employs a low order Shortley-Weller multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-31 James Gabbard , Andrea Paris , Wim M. van Rees

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…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Qi Hu , Nail A. Gumerov , Raghu Murtugudde , Ramani Duraiswami

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou

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

In this paper we are concerned with fast algorithms for the systems arising from the plane wave discretizations for two-dimensional Helmholtz equations with large wave numbers. We consider the plane wave weighted least squares (PWLS) method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Qiya Hu , Xuan Li

In this paper, a fast multipole method (FMM) is proposed for 3-D Laplace equation in layered media. The potential due to charges embedded in layered media is decomposed into a free space component and four types of reaction field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Bo Wang , Wen Zhong Zhang , Wei Cai

Interior point methods are widely used for different types of mathematical optimization problems. Many implementations of interior point methods in use today rely on direct linear solvers to solve systems of equations in each iteration. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Felix Liu , Albin Fredriksson , Stefano Markidis

The novel contribution of this paper relies in the proposal of a fully implicit numerical method designed for nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations, in its convergence/stability analysis, and in the study of the related computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-20 Matteo Semplice , Marco Donatelli , Stefano Serra-Capizzano

The Riesz maps of the $L^2$ de Rham complex frequently arise as subproblems in the construction of fast preconditioners for more complicated problems. In this work we present multigrid solvers for high-order finite element discretizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Pablo D. Brubeck , Patrick E. Farrell

For linear problems, domain decomposition methods can be used directly as iterative solvers, but also as preconditioners for Krylov methods. In practice, Krylov acceleration is almost always used, since the Krylov method finds a much better…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-17 V. Dolean , M. J. Gander , F. Kwok , R. Masson , W. Kheriji

This paper presents an efficient Krylov subspace iterative solver for the three-dimensional (3D) Helmholtz equation with non-constant coefficients and absorbing boundary conditions, combining high-resolution compact schemes with low-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yury Gryazin , Ron Gonzales , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Shifted Laplacian multigrid preconditioner has become a tool du jour for solving highly indefinite Helmholtz equations. The idea is to add a complex damping to the original Helmholtz operator and then apply a multigrid processing to the…

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We propose a fast collocation method based on Krylov subspace iterative solver on general nonuniform grids for the fractional Laplacian problem, in which the fractional operator is presented in a singular integral formulation. The method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Meijie Kong , Hongfei Fu

In boundary element methods (BEM) in $\mathbb{R}^3$, matrix elements and right hand sides are typically computed via analytical or numerical quadrature of the layer potential multiplied by some function over line, triangle and tetrahedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Nail A. Gumerov , Shoken Kaneko , Ramani Duraiswami

Classical iterative methods for tomographic reconstruction include the class of Algebraic Reconstruction Techniques (ART). Convergence of these stationary linear iterative methods is however notably slow. In this paper we propose the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Siegfried Cools , Pieter Ghysels , Wim van Aarle , J. Sijbers , Wim Vanroose

In the present paper we describe a class of algorithms for the solution of Laplace's equation on polygonal domains with Neumann boundary conditions. It is well known that in such cases the solutions have singularities near the corners which…

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