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Augmented Lagrangian preconditioners have successfully yielded Reynolds-robust preconditioners for the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, but only for specific discretizations. The discretizations for which these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell , L. Ridgway Scott , Florian Wechsung

The construction of fast iterative solvers for the indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell's system at mid- to high-frequency is a problem of great current interest. Some of the difficulties that arise are similar to those encountered in the case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Marcella Bonazzoli , Victorita Dolean , Ivan Graham , Euan Spence , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We discuss the construction of robust preconditioners for finite element approximations of Biot's consolidation model in poroelasticity. More precisely, we study finite element methods based on generalizations of the Hellinger-Reissner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Trygve Baerland , Jeonghun J. Lee , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ragnar Winther

Implicit solvers for atmospheric models are often accelerated via the solution of a preconditioned system. For block preconditioners this typically involves the factorisation of the (approximate) Jacobian resulting from linearization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-03 David Lee , Alberto F. Martín , Kieran Ricardo

We present two novel classes of fully discrete energy-preserving algorithms for the sine-Gordon equation subject to Neumann boundary conditions. The cosine pseudo-spectral method is first used to develop structure-preserving spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Qi Hong , Yushun Wang , Yuezheng Gong

The phase separation processes are typically modeled by Cahn-Hilliard equations. This equation was originally introduced to model phase separation in binary alloys, where phase stands for concentration of different components in alloy. When…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Pawan Kumar

Efficiently solving large-scale linear systems is a critical challenge in electromagnetic simulations, particularly when using the Crank-Nicolson Finite-Difference Time-Domain (CN-FDTD) method. Existing iterative solvers are commonly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Haoyuan Zhang , Yaqian Gao , Xinxin Zhang , Jialin Li , Runfeng Jin , Yidong Chen , Feng Zhang , Wu Yuan , Wenpeng Ma , Shan Liang , Jian Zhang , Zhonghua Lu

We present a Newton-Krylov solver for a viscous-plastic sea-ice model. This constitutive relation is commonly used in climate models to describe the material properties of sea ice. Due to the strong nonlinearity introduced by the material…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Yu-hsuan Shih , Carolin Mehlmann , Martin Losch , Georg Stadler

This paper introduces a robust reformulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, establishing a foundational framework for designing efficient, structure-preserving algorithms that strictly conserve the original energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Zihan Weng , Qi Hong , Chunwu Wang , Yuezheng Gong

In this paper we consider multiple saddle point problems with block tridiagonal Hessian in a Hilbert space setting. Well-posedness and the related issue of preconditioning are discussed. We give a characterization of all block structured…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Alexander Beigl , Jarle Sogn , Walter Zulehner

In this paper, we propose and analyze a temporally second-order accurate, fully discrete finite element method for the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. A modified Crank--Nicolson method is used to discretize the model and appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Cheng Wang , Jilu Wang , Zeyu Xia , Liwei Xu

We present a novel structure-preserving numerical scheme for discontinuous finite element approximations of nonlinear hyperbolic systems. The method can be understood as a generalization of the Lax-Friedrichs flux to a high-order staggered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-13 Tarik Dzanic , Will Trojak , Freddie D. Witherden

We prove sharp wavenumber-explicit error bounds for first- or second-family-N\'ed\'elec-element (a.k.a. edge-element) conforming discretisations, of arbitrary (fixed) order, of the variable-coefficient time-harmonic Maxwell equations posed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

In this paper, we propose a numerical method for the solution of time-dependent flow problems in mixed form. Such problems can be efficiently approximated on hierarchical grids, obtained from an unstructured coarse triangulation by using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Andrés Arrarás , Laura Portero

We consider a finite element method with symmetric stabilisation for the discretisation of the transient convection--diffusion equation. For the time-discretisation we consider either the second order backwards differentiation formula or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Erik Burman , Johnny Guzman

We present a finite-element time-domain (FETD) Maxwell solver for the analysis of body-of-revolution (BOR) geometries based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC) of differential forms and transformation optics (TO) concepts. We explore TO…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Dong-Yeop Na , Ben-Hur V. Borges , Fernando L. Teixeira

Recently, Garcke et al.[Garcke, Hinze, Kahle, A stable and linear time discretization for a thermodynamically consistent model for two-phase incompressible flow, Applied Numerical Mathematics 99, pp. 151-171, 2016] developed a consistent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Jessica Bosch , Christian Kahle , Martin Stoll

Miniaturized optical resonators with spatial dimensions of the order of the wavelength of the trapped light offer prospects for a variety of new applications like quantum processing or construction of meta-materials. Light propagation in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-28 L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , B. Kettner , F. Schmidt

The state of art of charge-conserving electromagnetic finite element particle-in-cell has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years. These advances have primarily been achieved for leap-frog time stepping schemes for Maxwell solvers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Omkar H. Ramachandran , Leo C. Kempel , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

In the framework of a mixed finite element method, a structure-preserving formulation for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with general boundary conditions is proposed. A leapfrog-type temporal scheme fully decouples the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yi Zhang , Artur Palha , Andrea Brugnoli , Deepesh Toshniwal , Marc Gerritsma