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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…

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We construct mesh-independent and parameter-robust monolithic solvers for the coupled primal Stokes-Darcy problem. Three different formulations and their discretizations in terms of conforming and non-conforming finite element methods and…

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Using convex combination and linesearch techniques, we introduce a novel primal-dual algorithm for solving structured convex-concave saddle point problems with a generic smooth nonbilinear coupling term. Our adaptive linesearch strategy…

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We investigate a mortar technique for mixed finite element approximations of Darcy flow on non-matching grids in which the normal flux is chosen as the coupling variable. It plays the role of a Lagrange multiplier to impose weakly…

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In this paper, we present a geometric multigrid methodology for the solution of matrix systems associated with isogeometric compatible discretizations of the generalized Stokes and Oseen problems. The methodology provably yields a pointwise…

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In this paper, we investigate a low-order robust numerical method for the linear elasticity problem. The method is based on a Bernardi--Raugel-like $\boldsymbol{H}(\mathrm{div})$-conforming method proposed first for the Stokes flows in [Li…

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We present a novel block-preconditioner for the elastic Helmholtz equation, based on a reduction to acoustic Helmholtz equations. Both versions of the Helmholtz equations are challenging numerically. The elastic Helmholtz equation is…

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We present multigrid methods for solving elliptic partial differential equations on arbitrary domains using the nodal ghost finite element method, an unfitted boundary approach where the domain is implicitly defined by a level-set function.…

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We present a novel stabilized isogeometric formulation for the Stokes problem, where the geometry of interest is obtained via overlapping NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) patches, i.e., one patch on top of another in an arbitrary but…

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In this work we construct multigrid preconditioners to accelerate the solution process of a linear-quadratic optimal control problem constrained by the Stokes system. The first order optimality conditions of the control problem form a…

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We develop a new spatial semidiscrete multiscale method based upon the edge multiscale methods to solve semilinear parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients and smooth initial data. This method allows for a cheap spatial…

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In this work, we develop analysis and algorithms for a class of (stochastic) bilevel optimization problems whose lower-level (LL) problem is strongly convex and linearly constrained. Most existing approaches for solving such problems rely…

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