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There has been a growing interest in parallel strategies for solving trajectory optimization problems. One key step in many algorithmic approaches to trajectory optimization is the solution of moderately-large and sparse linear systems.…
Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer an enormous flexibility regarding local grid refinement and variation of polynomial degrees for a variety of different problem classes. With a focus on diffusion problems, we consider DG…
Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) and Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) are two widely-used first-order optimization methods. They reduce a difficult problem to simple subproblems, so they are easy to implement and have…
A preconditioning framework for the coupled problem of frictional contact mechanics and fluid flow in the fracture network is presented. The porous medium is discretized using low-order continuous finite elements, with cell-centered…
Recently, Garcke et al.[Garcke, Hinze, Kahle, A stable and linear time discretization for a thermodynamically consistent model for two-phase incompressible flow, Applied Numerical Mathematics 99, pp. 151-171, 2016] developed a consistent…
In this paper we present a unified framework for constructing spectrally equivalent low-order-refined discretizations for the high-order finite element de Rham complex. This theory covers diffusion problems in $H^1$, $H({\rm curl})$, and…
The finite difference scheme with the shifted Gr\"{u}nwarld formula is employed to semi-discrete the fractional diffusion equations. This spatial discretization can reduce to the large system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with…
For some typical and widely used non-convex half-quadratic regularization models and the Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximate Mumford-Shah model, based on the Kurdyka-\L ojasiewicz analysis and the recent nonconvex proximal algorithms, we…
This paper presents the first results to combine two theoretically sound methods (spectral projection and multigrid methods) together to attack ill-conditioned linear systems. Our preliminary results show that the proposed algorithm applied…
A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…
In this paper we propose a multigrid optimization algorithm (MG/OPT) for the numerical solution of a class of quasilinear variational inequalities of the second kind. This approach is enabled by the fact that the solution of the variational…
Optimization problems with constraints in the form of a partial differential equation arise frequently in the process of engineering design. The discretization of PDE-constrained optimization problems results in large-scale linear systems…
In this paper, we study second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of Karush--Kuhn--Tucker-type for locally optimal solutions in the sense of Pareto to a class of multi-objective optimal control problems with mixed…
A DualTPD method is proposed for solving nonlinear partial differential equations. The method is characterized by three main features. First, decoupling via Fenchel--Rockafellar duality is achieved, so that nonlinear terms are discretized…
In this paper we introduce an algebraic recursive multilevel incomplete factorization preconditioner, based on a distributed Schur complement formulation, for solving general linear systems. The novelty of the proposed method is to combine…
Preconditioning techniques are crucial for enhancing the efficiency of solving large-scale linear equation systems that arise from partial differential equation (PDE) discretization. These techniques, such as Incomplete Cholesky…
The construction of multigrid operators for disordered linear lattice operators, in particular the fermion matrix in lattice gauge theories, by means of algebraic multigrid and block LU decomposition is discussed. In this formalism, the…
This paper provides the first provable $\mathcal{O}(N \log N)$ algorithms for the linear system arising from the direct finite element discretization of the fourth-order equation with different boundary conditions on unstructured grids of…
Stochastic Galerkin finite element discretizations of partial differential equations with coefficients characterized by arbitrary distributions lead, in general, to fully block dense linear systems. We propose two novel strategies for…