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In this paper, we study a class of inexact block triangular preconditioners for double saddle-point symmetric linear systems arising from the mixed finite element and mixed hybrid finite element discretization of Biot's poroelasticity…

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In this paper, we develop two classes of robust preconditioners for the structure-preserving discretization of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system. By studying the well-posedness of the discrete system, we design block…

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The Helmholtz equation poses significant computational challenges due to its oscillatory solutions, particularly for large wavenumbers. Inspired by the Schur complement system for elliptic problems, this paper presents a novel…

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The Onsager-Stefan-Maxwell (OSM) equations are an important model of mass transport in multicomponent flows with multiple chemical species. They describe the coupling of diffusive fluxes between species, accounting for their interactions…

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This paper introduces the Multiple Greedy Quasi-Newton (MGSR1-SP) method, a novel approach to solving strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point problems. Our method enhances the approximation of the squared indefinite Hessian…

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This paper proposes a provably convergent multiblock ADMM for nonconvex optimization with nonlinear dynamics constraints, overcoming the divergence issue in classical extensions. We consider a class of optimization problems that arise from…

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Statistical preconditioning enables fast methods for distributed large-scale empirical risk minimization problems. In this approach, multiple worker nodes compute gradients in parallel, which are then used by the central node to update the…

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In this study, we present an $hp$-multigrid preconditioner for a divergence-conforming HDG scheme for the generalized Stokes and the Navier-Stokes equations using an augmented Lagrangian formulation. Our method relies on conforming…

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This work is concerned with the convergence of the iterative solution for the Stokes flow, discretized with the weak Galerkin finite element method and preconditioned using inexact block Schur complement preconditioning. The resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Weizhang Huang , Zhuoran Wang

In this paper, we introduce some adaptive methods for solving variational inequalities with relatively strongly monotone operators. Firstly, we focus on the modification of the recently proposed, in smooth case [1], adaptive numerical…

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The Poisson pressure solve resulting from the spectral element discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation requires fast, robust, and scalable preconditioning. In the current work, a parallel scaling study of…

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A structured preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) solver is developed for the Newton steps in second-order methods for a class of constrained network optimal control problems. Of specific interest are problems with discrete-time dynamics…

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We consider the problem of finding local minimizers in non-convex and non-smooth optimization. Under the assumption of strict saddle points, positive results have been derived for first-order methods. We present the first known results for…

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This paper proposes an asymmetric perturbation technique for solving bilinear saddle-point optimization problems, commonly arising in minimax problems, game theory, and constrained optimization. Perturbing payoffs or values is known to be…

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