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A type of parallel augmented subspace scheme for eigenvalue problems is proposed by using coarse space in the multigrid method. With the help of coarse space in multigrid method, solving the eigenvalue problem in the finest space is…

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This paper introduces a multilevel kernel-based approximation method to estimate efficiently solutions to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with periodic random coefficients. Building upon the work of Kaarnioja, Kazashi, Kuo,…

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This work addresses an optimal control problem constrained by a degenerate kinetic equation of parabolic-hyperbolic type. Using a hypocoercivity framework we establish the well-posedness of the problem and demonstrate that the optimal…

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We propose a multigrid correction scheme to solve a new Steklov eigenvalue problem in inverse scattering. With this scheme, solving an eigenvalue problem in a fine finite element space is reduced to solve a series of boundary value problems…

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