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In this paper, we extend the classical quadrilateral based hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) framework to triangulated geometries. Traditionally, the HPS method takes as input an unstructured, high-order quadrilateral mesh and relies on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Gentian Zavalani

When numerically solving partial differential equations (PDEs), the first step is often to discretize the geometry using a mesh and to solve a corresponding discretization of the PDE. Standard finite and spectral element methods require…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Aaron Yeiser , Advisor Alex Townsend

The spectral/hp element method combines the geometric flexibility of the classical h-type finite element technique with the desirable numerical properties of spectral methods, employing high-degree piecewise polynomial basis functions on…

This paper serves as our first effort to develop a new triangular spectral element method (TSEM) on unstructured meshes, using the rectangle-triangle mapping proposed in the conference note [21]. Here, we provide some new insights into the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Michael Daniel Samson , Huiyuan Li , Li-Lian Wang

The spectral element method constructed by the $Q^k$ ($k\geq 2$) continuous finite element method with $(k+1)$-point Gauss-Lobatto quadrature on rectangular meshes is a popular high order scheme for solving wave equations in various…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Hao Li , Daniel Appelö , Xiangxiong Zhang

We introduce a fast direct solver for variable-coefficient elliptic partial differential equations on surfaces based on the hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov method. The method takes as input an unstructured, high-order quadrilateral mesh of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Daniel Fortunato

We develop a triangular formulation of the hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method for elliptic partial differential equations on surfaces, allowing high-order discretizations on unstructured meshes and complex geometries. Classical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Gentian Zavalani

In this work, we introduce a spectral-infinite element method for solving Einstein's constraint equations in hyperbolic form. As an application of this, we use this method for computing asymptotically flat perturbations of a Kerr black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Leon Escobar-Diaz , Paula Bran

A spectral method for solving linear partial differential equations (PDEs) with variable coefficients and general boundary conditions defined on rectangular domains is described, based on separable representations of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Alex Townsend , Sheehan Olver

We prove convergence of the spectral element method for piecewise polynomial collocation applied to periodic boundary value problems for functional differential equations. In particular, we prove that the numerical collocation solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Alessia andò , Jan Sieber

We introduce a two-level direct solver for the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method for solving linear elliptic PDEs. HPS combines multidomain spectral collocation with a direct solver, enabling high-order discretizations for highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Joseph Kump , Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

A spectral element method (SEM) is developed to solve polarized radiative transfer in multidimensional participating medium. The angular discretization is based on the discrete-ordinates approach, and the spatial discretization is conducted…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 J. M. Zhao , L. H. Liu , P. -f. Hsu , J. Y. Tan

We present a new solver for coupled nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The solver is based on pseudo-spectral collocation with domain decomposition and can handle one- to three-dimensional problems. It has three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

We develop a fast solver for the spectral element method (SEM) applied to the two-sided fractional diffusion equation on uniform, geometric and graded meshes. By approximating the singular kernel with a degenerate kernel, we construct a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Xianjuan Li , Zhiping Mao , Fangying Song , Hong Wang , George Em Karniadakis

In this paper, we design and analyze a novel spectral method for the subdiffusion equation. As it has been known, the solutions of this equation are usually singular near the initial time. Consequently, direct application of the traditional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Chuanju Xu , Wei Zeng

We revisit the Hierarchical Poincar\'{e}-Steklov (HPS) method for the Poisson equation using standard Q1 finite elements, building on the original in work on HPS of Martinsson from 2013. While corner degrees of freedom were implicitly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Michal Outrata , José Pablo Lucero Lorca

In this paper we show that we can use a modified version of the h-p spectral element method proposed in \cite{duttora1,duttom,duttora2,tomarth} to solve elliptic problems with general boundary conditions to exponential accuracy on polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-17 P K Dutt , N Kishore Kumar , C S Upadhyay

A numerical scheme is presented for approximating fractional order Poisson problems in two and three dimensions. The scheme is based on reformulating the original problem posed over $\Omega$ on the extruded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

Sparse spectral methods for solving partial differential equations have been derived in recent years using hierarchies of classical orthogonal polynomials on intervals, disks, and triangles. In this work we extend this methodology to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Ben Snowball , Sheehan Olver

In this article, we study numerical approximation of eigenvalue problems of the Schr\"{o}dinger operator $\displaystyle -\Delta u + \frac{c^2}{|x|^2}u$. There are three stages in our investigation: We start from a ball of any dimension, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang
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