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A domain decomposition method for the solution of general variable-coefficient elliptic partial differential equations on regular domains is introduced. The method is based on tessellating the domain into overlapping thin slabs or shells,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Simon Dirckx , Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Boundary element methods for elliptic partial differential equations typically lead to boundary integral operators with translation-invariant kernel functions. Taking advantage of this property is fairly simple for particle methods, e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Steffen Börm , Janne Henningsen

An H-matrix accelerated direct solver employing the high-order Chebyshev-based Boundary Integral Equation (CBIE) method has been formulated, tested, and profiled for performance on high contrast dielectric materials and electrically large…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Jin Hu , Emrah Sever , Omid Babazadeh , Ian Jeffrey , Vladimir Okhmatovski , Constantine Sideris

In this work, we consider the reformulation of hierarchical ($\mathcal{H}$) matrix algorithms for many-core processors with a model implementation on graphics processing units (GPUs). $\mathcal{H}$ matrices approximate specific dense…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Peter Zaspel

We are interested in solving linear systems arising from three applications: (1) kernel methods in machine learning, (2) discretization of boundary integral equations from mathematical physics, and (3) Schur complements formed in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Chao Chen , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. In this paper, a novel boundary integral formulation is proposed and its highly accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

An algorithm for a family of self-starting high-order implicit time integration schemes with controllable numerical dissipation is proposed for both linear and nonlinear transient problems. This work builds on the previous works of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Daniel O'Shea , Xiaoran Zhang , Shayan Mohammadian , Chongmin Song

We present memory-efficient and scalable algorithms for kernel methods used in machine learning. Using hierarchical matrix approximations for the kernel matrix the memory requirements, the number of floating point operations, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Elizaveta Rebrova , Gustavo Chavez , Yang Liu , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

Hierarchical matrices approximate a given matrix by a decomposition into low-rank submatrices that can be handled efficiently in factorized form. $\mathcal{H}^2$-matrices refine this representation following the ideas of fast multipole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Steffen Börm

This paper considers the iterative solution of linear systems arising from discretization of the anisotropic radiative transfer equation with discontinuous elements on the sphere. In order to achieve robust convergence behavior in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-11 Jürgen Dölz , Olena Palii , Matthias Schlottbom

The hierarchical matrix framework partitions matrices into subblocks that are either small or of low numerical rank, enabling linear storage complexity and efficient matrix-vector multiplication. This work focuses on the $H^2$-matrix format…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

This paper is devoted to the efficient numerical solution of the Helmholtz equation in a two- or three-dimensional rectangular domain with an absorbing boundary condition (ABC). The Helmholtz problem is discretized by standard bilinear and…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Jari Toivanen , Monika Wolfmayr

This paper introduces a directional multiscale algorithm for the two dimensional $N$-body problem of the Helmholtz kernel with applications to high frequency scattering. The algorithm follows the approach in [Engquist and Ying, SIAM Journal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-02-29 Björn Engquist , Lexing Ying

We propose, analyze, and test new robust iterative solvers for systems of linear algebraic equations arising from the space-time finite element discretization of reduced optimality systems defining the approximate solution of hyperbolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

The performance of finite element solvers on modern computer architectures is typically memory bound for sufficiently large problems. The main cause for this is that loading matrix elements from RAM into CPU cache is significantly slower…

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We consider the numerical solution of the scattering of time-harmonic plane waves from an infinite periodic array of reflection or transmission obstacles in a homogeneous background medium, in two dimensions. Boundary integral formulations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Adrianna Gillman , Alex Barnett

We present a fast iterative solver for scattering problems in 2D, where a penetrable object with compact support is considered. By representing the scattered field as a volume potential in terms of the Green's function, we arrive at the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Vaishnavi Gujjula , Sivaram Ambikasaran

Large-scale earthquake sequence simulations using the boundary element method (BEM) incur extreme computational costs through multiplying a dense matrix with a slip rate vector. Hierarchical matrices (H-matrices) have often been used to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 So Ozawa , Akihiro Ida , Tetsuya Hoshino , Ryosuke Ando

Starting from the local structures to study hierarchical trees is a common research method. However, the cumbersome analysis and description make the naive method challenging to adapt to the increasingly complex hierarchical tree problems.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Jianping Cai , Ximeng Liu , Jiayin Li , Shuangyue Zhang

The simulation of turbulence in the boundary region of a tokamak is crucial for understanding and optimizing the performance of fusion reactors. In this work, the use of low-rank linear algebra techniques is shown to enhance the efficiency…

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