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This paper provides a rigorous analysis of boundary element methods for the magnetic field integral equation on Lipschitz polyhedra. The magnetic field integral equation is widely used in practical applications to model electromagnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Van Chien Le , Kristof Cools

Multigrid methods are asymptotically optimal algorithms ideal for large-scale simulations. But, they require making numerous algorithmic choices that significantly influence their efficiency. Unlike recent approaches that learn optimal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Dinesh Parthasarathy , Tommaso Bevilacqua , Martin Lanser , Axel Klawonn , Harald Köstler

We present a multigrid method for an unfitted finite element discretization of the Dirichlet boundary value problem. The discretization employs Nitsche's method to implement the boundary condition and additional face based ghost penalties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 M. Cai , A. J. Nonaka , J. B. Bell , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

In this paper, we propose a robust solver for the finite element discrete problem of the stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in three dimensions. By the mixed finite element method, both the velocity and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-23 Lingxiao Li , Weiying Zheng

In this work we derive equivalence relations between mimetic finite difference schemes on simplicial grids and modified N\'ed\'elec-Raviart-Thomas finite element methods for model problems in $\mathbf{H}(\operatorname{\mathbf{curl}})$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco Gaspar , Xiaozhe Hu , Ludmil Zikatanov

When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element methods offer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

This work is about a new two-level solver for Helmholtz equations discretized by finite elements. The method is inspired by two-grid methods for finite-difference Helmholtz problems as well as by previous work on two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Christiaan C. Stolk

We present a new high order finite element method for the discretization of partial differential equations on stationary smooth surfaces which are implicitly described as the zero level of a level set function. The discretization is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Jörg Grande , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

The construction of robust solvers for linear systems obtained from the discretization of partial differential equations using Isogeometric Analysis is challenging since the condition number of the system matrix not only grows with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Monica Montardini , Stefan Takacs , Mattia Tani

Problems of interest in hydrogeology and hydrocarbon resources involve complex heterogeneous geological formations. Such domains are most accurately represented in reservoir simulations by unstructured computational grids. Finite element…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Joachim Moortgat , Abbas Firoozabadi

This paper is concerned with the design, analysis and implementation of preconditioning concepts for spectral Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic boundary value problems. While presently known techniques realize a growth of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Kolja Brix , Martin Campos Pinto , Claudio Canuto , Wolfgang Dahmen

In this work, we present scalable balancing domain decomposition by constraints methods for linear systems arising from arbitrary order edge finite element discretizations of multi-material and heterogeneous 3D problems. In order to enforce…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín , Marc Olm

Multigrid preconditioners and solvers for the indefinite Helmholtz equation suffer from non-stability of the stationary smoothers due to the indefinite spectrum of the operator. In this paper we explore GMRES as a replacement for the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose , Hisham bin Zubair

We investigate the application of the additive overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition method as a preconditioner for the large sparse linear systems arising in graph-based nonlinear least-squares problems, specifically the pose-graph…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Stephan Köhler , Oliver Rheinbach , Yue Xiang Tee , Sebastian Zug

In this article, a new generic higher-order finite-element framework for massively parallel simulations is presented. The modular software architecture is carefully designed to exploit the resources of modern and future supercomputers.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Nils Kohl , Dominik Thönnes , Daniel Drzisga , Dominik Bartuschat , Ulrich Rüde

We develop a simple algorithmic framework to solve large-scale symmetric positive definite linear systems. At its core, the framework relies on two components: (1) a norm-convergent iterative method (i.e. smoother) and (2) a preconditioner.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Xiaozhe Hu , Shuhong Wu , Xiao-Hui Wu , Jinchao Xu , Chen-Song Zhang , Shiquan Zhang , Ludmil Zikatanov

The Riesz maps of the $L^2$ de Rham complex frequently arise as subproblems in the construction of fast preconditioners for more complicated problems. In this work we present multigrid solvers for high-order finite element discretizations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Pablo D. Brubeck , Patrick E. Farrell

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Malachi Phillips , Stefan Kerkemeier , Paul Fischer

The (Isogeometric) Finite Cell Method - in which a domain is immersed in a structured background mesh - suffers from conditioning problems when cells with small volume fractions occur. In this contribution, we establish a rigorous scaling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 F. de Prenter , C. V. Verhoosel , G. J. van Zwieten , E. H. van Brummelen