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The Lippmann-Schwinger equation is an integral equation formulation for acoustic and electromagnetic scattering from an inhomogeneous media and quantum scattering from a localized potential. We present the sparsifying preconditioner for…
This paper introduces the sparsifying preconditioner for the pseudospectral approximation of highly indefinite systems on periodic structures, which include the frequency-domain response problems of the Helmholtz equation and the…
This paper presents an efficient preconditioner for the Lippmann-Schwinger equation that combines the ideas of the sparsifying and the sweeping preconditioners. Following first the idea of the sparsifying preconditioner, this new…
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…
This paper introduces the localized sparsifying preconditioner for the pseudospectral approximations of indefinite systems on periodic structures. The work is built on top of the recently proposed sparsifying preconditioner with two major…
This paper rigorously analyses preconditioners for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with absorption, where the PDE is discretised using curl-conforming finite-element methods of fixed, arbitrary order and the preconditioner is…
We consider the numerical solution of large scale time-harmonic Maxwell equations. To this day, this problem remains difficult, in particular because the equations are neither Hermitian nor semi-definite. Our approach is to compare…
This paper presents a fast iterative solver for Lippmann-Schwinger equation for high-frequency waves scattered by a smooth medium with a compactly supported inhomogeneity. The solver is based on the sparsifying preconditioner and a domain…
This paper concerns the preconditioning technique for discrete systems arising from time-harmonic Maxwell equations with absorptions, where the discrete systems are generated by N\'ed\'elec finite element methods of fixed order on meshes…
The construction of fast iterative solvers for the indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell's system at mid- to high-frequency is a problem of great current interest. Some of the difficulties that arise are similar to those encountered in the case…
Sparse linear system solvers are computationally expensive kernels that lie at the heart of numerous applications. This paper proposes a flexible preconditioning framework to substantially reduce the time and energy requirements of this…
Time-harmonic solutions to the wave equation can be computed in the frequency or in the time domain. In the frequency domain, one solves a discretized Helmholtz equation, while in the time domain, the periodic solutions to a discretized…
Instance sparsification is well-known in the world of exact computation since it is very closely linked to the Exponential Time Hypothesis. In this paper, we extend the concept of sparsification in order to capture subexponential time…
Generally, discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs) creates a sequence of linear systems $A_k x_k = b_k, k = 0, 1, 2, ..., N$ with well-known and structured sparsity patterns. Preconditioners are often necessary to achieve…
Inversion of sparse matrices with standard direct solve schemes is robust, but computationally expensive. Iterative solvers, on the other hand, demonstrate better scalability; but, need to be used with an appropriate preconditioner (e.g.,…
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 investigates the following question: given a Galerkin matrix corresponding to a finite-element discretisation of either the Helmholtz or time-harmonic Maxwell equations with variable coefficients, suppose that the coefficients of…
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…
The time-harmonic Maxwell equations are used to study the effect of electric and magnetic fields on each other. Although the linear systems resulting from solving this system using FEMs are sparse, direct solvers cannot reach the linear…
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…