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The fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ is the prototypical non-local elliptic operator. While analytical theory has been advanced and understood for some time, there remain many open problems in the numerical analysis of the…
A Lagrangian numerical scheme for solving nonlinear degenerate Fokker-Planck equations in space dimensions $d\ge2$ is presented. It applies to a large class of nonlinear diffusion equations, whose dynamics are driven by internal energies…
The thesis studies linear and semilinear Dirichlet problems driven by different fractional Laplacians. The boundary data can be smooth functions or also Radon measures. The goal is to classify the solutions which have a singularity on the…
We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and study an optimal control problem on Lipschitz domains that involves a fractional elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) as state equation and a control variable…
In this article, two kinds of numerical algorithms are derived for the ultra-slow (or superslow) diffusion equation in one and two space dimensions, where the ultra-slow diffusion is characterized by the Caputo-Hadamard fractional…
This work aims to construct an efficient and highly accurate numerical method to address the time singularity at $t=0$ involved in a class of time-fractional parabolic integro-partial differential equations in one and two dimensions. The…
In this work, we propose a robust and easily implemented algebraic multigrid method as a stand-alone solver or a preconditioner in Krylov subspace methods for solving either symmetric and positive definite or saddle point linear systems of…
Semi-Lagrangian methods have traditionally been developed in the framework of hyperbolic equations, but several extensions of the Semi-Lagrangian approach to diffusion and advection--diffusion problems have been proposed recently. These…
Due to the nonlocal feature of fractional differential operators, the numerical solution to fractional partial differential equations usually requires expensive memory and computation costs. This paper develops a fast scheme for fractional…
We consider an elliptic equation with the fractional Laplacian operator $(-\Delta)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}$ in the dissipative term, a singular integral operator ${\bf A}(\cdot)$ in the nonlinear term, and an external source $f$. The key example…
For several classes of mathematical models that yield linear systems, the splitting of the matrix into its Hermitian and skew Hermitian parts is naturally related to properties of the underlying model. This is particularly so for…
This paper focuses on the design, analysis and implementation of a new preconditioning concept for linear second order partial differential equations, including the convection-diffusion-reaction problems discretized by Galerkin or…
The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic obstacle scattering problems by a bounded scatterer. This paper presents the directional preconditioner for the iterative solution of linear systems of the…
We present a fast spectral Galerkin scheme for the discretization of boundary integral equations arising from two-dimensional Helmholtz transmission problems in multi-layered periodic structures or gratings. Employing suitably parametrized…
Motivated by a wide range of real-world problems whose solutions exhibit boundary and interior layers, the numerical analysis of discretizations of singularly perturbed differential equations is an established sub-discipline within the…
In this work we investigate the well-posedness for difussion equations associated to subelliptic pseudo-differential operators on compact Lie groups. The diffusion by strongly elliptic operators is considered as a special case and in…
A high-accuracy time discretization is discussed to numerically solve the nonlinear fractional diffusion equation forced by a space-time white noise. The main purpose of this paper is to improve the temporal convergence rate by modifying…
In this work we extend the shifted Laplacian approach to the elastic Helmholtz equation. The shifted Laplacian multigrid method is a common preconditioning approach for the discretized acoustic Helmholtz equation. In some cases, like…
We examine a fractional version of the discrete Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (dnls) equation, where the usual discrete laplacian is replaced by a fractional discrete laplacian. This leads to the replacement of the usual nearest-neighbor…
We show that it is possible to obtain numerical solutions to quantum mechanical problems involving a fractional Laplacian, using a collocation approach based on Little Sinc Functions (LSF), which discretizes the Schr\"odinger equation on a…