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In this article we design and analyze a class of two-level non-overlapping additive Schwarz preconditioners for the solution of the linear system of equations stemming from discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of second-order elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-28 P. F. Antonietti , P. Houston , G. Pennesi , E. Süli

In this work, we develop algebraic solvers for linear systems arising from the discretization of second-order elliptic partial differential equations by saddle-point mixed finite element methods of arbitrary polynomial degree $p \ge 0$ on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ani Miraçi , Jan Papež , Martin Vohralík , Ivan Yotov

We study a multigrid method for solving large linear systems of equations with tensor product structure. Such systems are obtained from stochastic finite element discretization of stochastic partial differential equations such as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Howard C. Elman , Tengfei Su

We propose an augmented Lagrangian-based preconditioner to accelerate the convergence of Krylov subspace methods applied to linear systems of equations with a block three-by-three structure such as those arising from mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Fatemeh P. A. Beik , Michele Benzi

Isogeometric Analysis is a high-order discretization method for boundary value problems that uses a number of degrees of freedom which is as small as for a low-order method. Standard isogeometric discretizations require a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Stefan Takacs

As part of our development of a computer code to perform 3D `constrained evolution' of Einstein's equations in 3+1 form, we discuss issues regarding the efficient solution of elliptic equations on domains containing holes (i.e., excised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott H. Hawley , Richard A. Matzner

This paper discusses our recent generalized optimal algebraic multigrid (AMG) convergence theory applied to the steady-state Stokes equations discretized using Taylor-Hood elements ($\pmb{ \mathbb{P}}_2/\mathbb{P}_{1}$). The generalized…

We present a geometric multigrid solver based on adaptive smoothed aggregation suitable for Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretisations. Mesh hierarchies are formed via domain decomposition techniques, and the method is applicable to fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Yulong Pan , Michael Lindsey , Per-Olof Persson

In this paper we present an overview of recent progress on the development and analysis of domain decomposition preconditioners for discretised Helmholtz problems, where the preconditioner is constructed from the corresponding problem with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 I. G. Graham , E. A. Spence , E. Vainikko

We consider discontinuous Galerkin methods for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem constrained by a convection-dominated problem. We prove global optimal convergence rates using an inf-sup condition, with the diffusion parameter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Sijing Liu , Valeria Simoncini

In this paper, several projection method based preconditioners for various incompressible flow models are studied. In particular, we are interested in the theoretical analysis of a pressure-correction projection method based preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Mingchao Cai

Multigrid methods have proven to be an invaluable tool to efficiently solve large sparse linear systems arising in the discretization of partial differential equations (PDEs). Algebraic multigrid methods and in particular adaptive algebraic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Hanno Gottschalk , Karsten Kahl

A class of preconditioners is introduced to enhance geometry optimisation and transition state search of molecular systems. We start from the Hessian of molecular mechanical terms, decompose it and retain only its positive definite part to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Letif Mones , Gabor Csanyi , Christoph Ortner

We present a Ritz-Galerkin discretization on sparse grids using pre-wavelets, which allows to solve elliptic differential equations with variable coefficients for dimension $d=2,3$ and higher dimensions $d>3$. The method applies multilinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Rainer Hartmann , Christoph Pflaum

We introduce a preconditioner for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number. The preconditioner is based on an augmented Lagrangian approach of the full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Alexander D. Lindsay , Sander Rhebergen , Ben S. Southworth

We present a mesh-independent and parameter-robust multigrid solver for the Scott-Vogelius discretisation of the nearly incompressible linear elasticity equations on meshes with a macro element structure. The discretisation achieves exact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell , L. Ridgway Scott , Florian Wechsung

This paper builds on the algebraic theory in the companion paper [Algebraic Error Analysis for Mixed-Precision Multigrid Solvers] to obtain discretization-error-accurate solutions for linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Rasmus Tamstorf , Joseph Benzaken , Stephen F. McCormick

The design of fast solvers for isogeometric analysis is receiving a lot of attention due to the challenge that offers to find an algorithm with a robust convergence with respect to the spline degree. Here, we analyze the application of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Álvaro Pé de la Riva , Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco J. Gaspar

The solution of saddle-point problems, such as the Stokes equations, is a challenging task, especially in large-scale problems. Multigrid methods are one of the most efficient solvers for such systems of equations and can achieve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 S. Saberi , G. Meschke , A. Vogel

The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , L. Ridgway Scott