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This paper studies a finite element discretization of the regularized Bingham equations that describe viscoplastic flow. An efficient nonlinear solver for the discrete model is then proposed and analyzed. The solver is based on Anderson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Sara Pollock , Leo G. Rebholz , Duygu Vargun

We propose, analyze, and test a nonlinear preconditioning technique to improve the Newton iteration for non-isothermal flow simulations. We prove that by first applying an Anderson accelerated Picard step, Newton becomes unconditionally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Elizabeth Hawkins

We study an iterative nonlinear solver for the Oldroyd-B system describing incompressible viscoelastic fluid flow. We establish a range of attributes of the fixed-point-based solver, together with the conditions under which it becomes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Duygu Vargun , Igor O. Monteiro , Leo G. Rebholz

This work proposes a general strategy for solving possibly nonlinear problems arising from implicit time discretizations as a sequence of explicit solutions. The resulting sequence may exhibit instabilities similar to those of the base…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Nicolas A. Barnafi , Felipe Galarce , Pablo Brubeck

We propose, analyze and test Anderson-accelerated Picard iterations for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (NSE). Anderson acceleration has recently gained interest as a strategy to accelerate linear and nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Sara Pollock , Leo G. Rebholz , Mengying Xiao

BoostConv has been introduced in earlier works as an effective acceleration technique for nonlinear iterative processes and has been successfully employed in a variety of applications to enhance convergence rates or to compute unstable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Vincenzo Citro , Davide Palitta

We consider the application of the type-I Anderson acceleration to solving general non-smooth fixed-point problems. By interleaving with safe-guarding steps, and employing a Powell-type regularization and a re-start checking for strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Junzi Zhang , Brendan O'Donoghue , Stephen Boyd

Anderson acceleration is an effective technique for enhancing the efficiency of fixed-point iterations; however, analyzing its convergence in nonsmooth settings presents significant challenges. In this paper, we investigate a class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Kexin Li , Luwei Bai , Xiao Wang , Hao Wang

This paper studies the performance Newton's iteration applied with Anderson acceleration for solving the incompressible steady Navier-Stokes equations. We manifest that this method converges superlinearly with a good initial guess, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Mengying Xiao

This paper provides the first proof that Anderson acceleration (AA) improves the convergence rate of general fixed point iterations. AA has been used for decades to speed up nonlinear solvers in many applications, however a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Claire Evans , Sara Pollock , Leo G. Rebholz , Mengying Xiao

In this work, we extend a modified Anderson acceleration proposed in [Y. He, arXiv:2603.25983, 2026] to accelerate the Picard iteration for the Navier-Stokes equations. In this variant of Anderson acceleration, named AAg, the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yunhui He , Leo Rebholz

In this work, we propose a generalized alternating Anderson acceleration method, a periodic scheme composed of $t$ fixed-point iteration steps, interleaved with $s$ steps of Anderson acceleration with window size $m$, to solve linear and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Yunhui He , Santolo Leveque

We give new convergence results of Anderson acceleration for the composite $\max$ fixed point problem. We prove that Anderson(1) and EDIIS(1) are q-linear convergent with a smaller q-factor than existing q-factors. Moreover, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Wei Bian , Xiaojun Chen

Anderson acceleration (or Anderson mixing) is an efficient acceleration method for fixed point iterations $x_{t+1}=G(x_t)$, e.g., gradient descent can be viewed as iteratively applying the operation $G(x) \triangleq x-\alpha\nabla f(x)$. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Zhize Li , Jian Li

Anderson Acceleration (AA) has been widely used to solve nonlinear fixed-point problems due to its rapid convergence. This work focuses on a variant of AA in which multiple Picard iterations are performed between each AA step, referred to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Xue Feng , M. Paul Laiu , Thomas Strohmer

Two adaptive relaxation strategies are proposed for Anderson acceleration. They are specifically designed for applications in which mappings converge to a fixed point. Their superiority over alternative Anderson acceleration is demonstrated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Nicolas Lepage-Saucier

The Newton's method for solving stationary Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) is known to convergent fast, however, may fail due to a bad initial guess. This work presents a simple-to-implement nonlinear preconditioning of Newton's iteration,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Muhammad Mohebujjaman , Mengying Xiao , Cheng Zhang

Anderson acceleration is a well-established and simple technique for speeding up fixed-point computations with countless applications. Previous studies of Anderson acceleration in optimization have only been able to provide convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Vien V. Mai , Mikael Johansson

In this paper we develop convergence and acceleration theory for Anderson acceleration applied to Newton's method for nonlinear systems in which the Jacobian is singular at a solution. For these problems, the standard Newton algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Matt Dallas , Sara Pollock

In this paper, we propose a novel Anderson's acceleration method to solve nonlinear equations, which does \emph{not} require a restart strategy to achieve numerical stability. We propose the greedy and random versions of our algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Haishan Ye , Dachao Lin , Xiangyu Chang , Zhihua Zhang
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