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We present original time-parallel algorithms for the solution of the implicit Euler discretization of general linear parabolic evolution equations with time-dependent self-adjoint spatial operators. Motivated by the inf-sup theory of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Martin Neumuller , Iain Smears

We propose parameter-robust preconditioners for the statically condensed linear system arising from a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the coupled Stokes--Darcy system. The design strategy relies on first applying the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Esteban Henríquez , Miroslav Kuchta , Jeonghun J. Lee , Sander Rhebergen

In this paper we construct Discontinuous Galerkin approximations of the Stokes problem where the velocity field is H(div)-conforming. This implies that the velocity solution is divergence-free in the whole domain. This property can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-10 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Franco Brezzi , L. Donatella Marini , Jinchao Xu , Ludmil Zikatanov

We present optimal preconditioners for a recently introduced hybridized discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization of the Stokes equations. Typical of hybridized discontinuous Galerkin methods, the method has degrees-of-freedom…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Sander Rhebergen , Garth N. Wells

In this paper, we develop a new tensor-product based preconditioner for discontinuous Galerkin methods with polynomial degrees higher than those typically employed. This preconditioner uses an automatic, purely algebraic method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Will Pazner , Per-Olof Persson

We study the numerical approximation of a coupled hyperbolic-parabolic system by a family of discontinuous Galerkin space-time finite element methods. The model is rewritten as a first-order evolutionary problem that is treated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Markus Bause , Sebastian Franz

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 propose a domain decomposition method for multiscale second order elliptic partial differential equations with highly varying coefficients. The method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin formulation. We present both a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Yunfei Ma , Petter Bjorstad , Talal Rahman , Xuejun Xu

We propose and analyse a fully-discrete discontinuous Galerkin time-stepping method for parabolic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations with Cordes coefficients. The method is consistent and unconditionally stable on rather general…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Iain Smears , Endre Süli

The incompressible Euler equations are an important model system in computational fluid dynamics. Fast high-order methods for the solution of this time-dependent system of partial differential equations are of particular interest: due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Eike Hermann Müller

We combine the newly-constructed Galerkin difference basis with the energy-based discontinuous Galerkin method for wave equations in second order form. The approximation properties of the resulting method are excellent and the allowable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Lu Zhang , Daniel Appelö , Thomas Hagstrom

A method of numerically solving the Maxwell equations is considered for modeling harmonic electromagnetic fields. The vector finite element method makes it possible to obtain a physically consistent discretization of the differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Andrew V. Terekhov

Solving the Stokes equation by an optimal domain decomposition method derived algebraically involves the use of non standard interface conditions whose discretisation is not trivial. For this reason the use of approximation methods such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Michał Bosy , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

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…

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We introduce a family of proximal discontinuous Galerkin methods for variational inequalities, focusing on the obstacle problem as a didactic example. Each member of this family is born from applying a different well-known nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Alexandre Ern , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Rami Masri , Beatrice Riviere

Fully implicit Runge-Kutta (IRK) methods have many desirable accuracy and stability properties as time integration schemes, but high-order IRK methods are not commonly used in practice with large-scale numerical PDEs because of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Ben S. Southworth , Oliver Krzysik , Will Pazner

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are promising high order discretizations for unsteady compressible flows. Here, we focus on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). These flows are characterized by a fine resolution in $z$-direction and low…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Philipp Birken , Andreas Dedner , Robert Klöfkorn

Numerical climate- and weather-prediction requires the fast solution of the equations of fluid dynamics. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretisations have several advantageous properties. They can be used for arbitrary domains and support a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Jack D. Betteridge , Thomas H. Gibson , Ivan G. Graham , Eike H. Müller

An efficient time-stepping algorithm is proposed based on operator-splitting and the space-time discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for problems in the non-classical theory of thermoelasticity. The non-classical theory incorporates…

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