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PDE-constrained optimization is a field of numerical analysis that combines the theory of PDEs, nonlinear optimization and numerical linear algebra. Optimization problems of this kind arise in many physical applications, prominently in…

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This paper deals with balanced domain decomposition by constraints (BDDC) method for solving large-scale linear systems of algebraic equations arising from the space-time finite element discretization of parabolic initial-boundary value…

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In this paper we propose and analyze a preconditioner for a system arising from a finite element approximation of second order elliptic problems describing processes in highly het- erogeneous media. Our approach uses the technique of…

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We consider an optimal control problem subject to a semilinear elliptic PDE together with its variational discretization. We provide a condition which allows to decide whether a solution of the necessary first order conditions is a global…

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This work is concerned with the quantification of the epistemic uncertainties induced the discretization of partial differential equations. Following the paradigm of probabilistic numerics, we quantify this uncertainty probabilistically.…

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In this work, we propose new variants of Anderson acceleration and nonlinear GMRES for general fixed-point iterations, based on modified least-squares problems associated with the methods. To solve the underlying linear systems, we apply…

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This article introduces an iterative method for solving nonsingular non-Hermitian positive semidefinite systems of linear equations. To construct the iteration process, the coefficient matrix is split into two non-Hermitian positive…

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In this paper we propose a variant of the substructuring preconditioner for solving three-dimensional elliptic-type equations with strongly discontinuous coefficients. In the proposed preconditioner, we use the simplest coarse solver…

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We present and analyze a class of nonsymmetric preconditioners within a normal (weighted least-squares) matrix form for use in GMRES to solve nonsymmetric matrix problems that typically arise in finite element discretizations. An example of…

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