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We modify the well-known interior penalty finite element discretization method so that it allows for element-by-element assembly. This is possible due to the introduction of additional unknowns associated with the interfaces between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Panayot S. Vassilevski

This work introduces nodal auxiliary space preconditioners for discretizations of mixed-dimensional partial differential equations. We first consider the continuous setting and generalize the regular decomposition to this setting. With the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Ana Budisa , Wietse Boon , Xiaozhe Hu

Although some preconditioners are available for solving dense linear systems, there are still many matrices for which preconditioners are lacking, in particular in cases where the size of the matrix $N$ becomes very large. There remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Pieter Coulier , Hadi Pouransari , Eric Darve

The parameter-uniform convergence of a fitted operator method for a singularly perturbed differential equation is normally available only for uniform meshes. Here we establish the parameter-uniform convergence of a fitted operator method on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 John J. H. Miller

A class of preconditioners is introduced to enhance geometry optimisation and transition state search of molecular systems. We start from the Hessian of molecular mechanical terms, decompose it and retain only its positive definite part to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Letif Mones , Gabor Csanyi , Christoph Ortner

A finite-element discretization of such an equation yields a linear system whose conditioning worsens as the variations in the values of PDE coefficients becomes large. This paper introduces a procedure by which the discrete system obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yuliya Gorb , Daria Kurzanova , Yuri Kuznetsov

This article presents a method for solving large-scale linear inverse problems regular- ized with a nonlinear, edge-preserving penalty term such as the total variation or Perona-Malik. In the proposed scheme, the nonlinearity is handled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-02 Simon R. Arridge , Marta M. Betcke , Lauri Harhanen

We study optimal diagonal preconditioning using the classical worst-case $\kappa$-condition number and the averaging-based $\omega$-condition number. For the $\kappa$-optimal preconditioning problem, we derive an affine-based pseudoconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Saeed Ghadimi , Woosuk L. Jung , Arnesh Sujanani , David Torregrosa-Belén , Henry Wolkowicz

A new domain decomposition preconditioner is introduced for efficiently solving linear systems Ax = b with a symmetric positive definite matrix A. The particularity of the new preconditioner is that it is not necessary to have access to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Nicole Spillane

In this paper we present a unified framework for constructing spectrally equivalent low-order-refined discretizations for the high-order finite element de Rham complex. This theory covers diffusion problems in $H^1$, $H({\rm curl})$, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Will Pazner , Tzanio Kolev , Clark Dohrmann

Polynomial preconditioning can improve the convergence of the Arnoldi method for computing eigenvalues. Such preconditioning significantly reduces the cost of orthogonalization; for difficult problems, it can also reduce the number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Mark Embree , Jennifer A. Loe , Ronald B. Morgan

We show that the mass matrix derived from finite elements can be effectively used as a preconditioner for iteratively solving the linear system arising from finite-difference discretization of the Poisson equation, using the conjugate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Chen Greif , Yunhui He

The main computational cost of algorithms for computing reduced-order models of parametric dynamical systems is in solving sequences of very large and sparse linear systems. We focus on efficiently solving these linear systems, arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Navneet Pratap Singh , Kapil Ahuja

While preconditioning is a long-standing concept to accelerate iterative methods for linear systems, generalizations to matrix functions are still in their infancy. We go a further step in this direction, introducing polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Andreas Frommer , Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo , Marcel Schweitzer , Manuel Tsolakis

In this paper, we develop the auxiliary space preconditioners for solving the linear system arising from the virtual element methods discretization on polytopal meshes for the second order elliptic equations. The preconditioners are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Yunrong Zhu

This work considers the iterative solution of large-scale problems subject to non-symmetric matrices or operators arising in discretizations of (port-)Hamiltonian partial differential equations. We consider problems governed by an operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Volker Mehrmann , Manuel Schaller , Martin Stoll

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Mattia Tani

Despite hundreds of papers on preconditioned linear systems of equations, there remains a significant lack of comprehensive performance benchmarks comparing various preconditioners for solving symmetric positive definite (SPD) systems. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Marc A. Tunnell , David F. Gleich

Solution methods for the nonlinear partial differential equation of the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) and minimum-surface models are fundamental for many modern applications. Many efficient algorithms have been proposed. First order methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 Xue-Cheng Tai , Ragnar Winther , Xiaodi Zhang , Weiying Zheng

This paper develops the preconditioning technique as a method to address the accuracy issue caused by ill-conditioning. Given a preconditioner $M$ for an ill-conditioned linear system $Ax=b$, we show that, if the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Qiang Ye