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The computation time for reservoir simulation is dominated by the linear solver. The sets of linear equations which arise in reservoir simulation have two distinctive features: the problems are usually highly anisotropic, with a dominant…
We develop a family of reformulations of an arbitrary consistent linear system into a stochastic problem. The reformulations are governed by two user-defined parameters: a positive definite matrix defining a norm, and an arbitrary discrete…
3D numerical simulations of ferromagnetic materials can be compared with experimental results via microwave susceptibility. In this paper, an optimised computation of this microwave susceptibility for large meshes is proposed. The microwave…
In this article we present a new multigrid preconditioner for the linear systems arising in the semismooth Newton method solution of certain control-constrained, quadratic distributed optimal control problems. Using a piecewise constant…
Solving linear systems is often the computational bottleneck in real-life problems. Iterative solvers are the only option due to the complexity of direct algorithms or because the system matrix is not explicitly known. Here, we develop a…
Given a full column rank matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ ($m\geq n$), we consider a special class of linear systems of the form $A^\top Ax=A^\top b+c$ with $x, c \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ and $b \in \mathbb{R}^{m}$. The occurrence of $c$ in…
Preconditioned iterative methods for numerical solution of large matrix eigenvalue problems are increasingly gaining importance in various application areas, ranging from material sciences to data mining. Some of them, e.g., those using…
The study of solving the inverse eigenvalue problem for nonnegative matrices has been around for decades. It is clear that an inverse eigenvalue problem is trivial if the desirable matrix is not restricted to a certain structure. Provided…
When solving linear systems arising from PDE discretizations, iterative methods (such as Conjugate Gradient, GMRES, or MINRES) are often the only practical choice. To converge in a small number of iterations, however, they have to be…
This paper introduces the Nystr\"om PCG algorithm for solving a symmetric positive-definite linear system. The algorithm applies the randomized Nystr\"om method to form a low-rank approximation of the matrix, which leads to an efficient…
This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…
Several preconditioned AOR methods have been proposed to solve system of linear equations $Ax=b$, where $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ is a unit Z-matrix. The aim of this paper is to give a comparison result for a class of preconditioners…
We present an efficient preconditioner for linear problems $A x=y$. It guarantees monotonic convergence of the memory-efficient fixed-point iteration for all accretive systems of the form $A = L + V$, where $L$ is an approximation of $A$,…
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…
We establish a new iterative method for solving a class of large and sparse linear systems of equations with three-by-three block coefficient matrices having saddle point structure. Convergence properties of the proposed method are studied…
In the context of isogeometric analysis, we consider two discretization approaches that make the resulting stiffness matrix nonsymmetric even if the differential operator is self-adjoint. These are the collocation method and the…
The complex-shifted Laplacian systems arising in a wide range of applications. In this work, we propose an absolute-value based preconditioner for solving the complex-shifted Laplacian system. In our approach, the complex-shifted Laplacian…
The convergence rates of iterative methods for solving a linear system $\mathbf{A} x = b$ typically depend on the condition number of the matrix $\mathbf{A}$. Preconditioning is a common way of speeding up these methods by reducing that…
We introduce and compare new compression approaches to obtain regularized solutions of large linear systems which are commonly encountered in large scale inverse problems. We first describe how to approximate matrix vector operations with a…
Sketch-and-precondition techniques are efficient and popular for solving large least squares (LS) problems of the form $Ax=b$ with $A\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and $m\gg n$. This is where $A$ is ``sketched" to a smaller matrix $SA$ with…