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Efficient algorithms for the solution of partial differential equations on parallel computers are often based on domain decomposition methods. Schwarz preconditioners combined with standard Krylov space solvers are widely used in this…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Lüscher

Two-level domain decomposition preconditioners lead to fast convergence and scalability of iterative solvers. However, for highly heterogeneous problems, where the coefficient function is varying rapidly on several possibly non-separated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Alexander Heinlein , Kathrin Smetana

Domain decomposition methods (DDMs) provide a unifying framework for the scalable numerical solution of partial differential equations. Originating from Schwarz's alternating method, they have evolved into a rich family of algorithms that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

This paper explores preconditioning the normal equation for non-symmetric square linear systems arising from PDE discretization, focusing on methods like CGNE and LSQR. The concept of ``normal'' preconditioning is introduced and a strategy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Lorenzo Lazzarino , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Umberto Zerbinati

The additive Schwarz method is usually presented as a preconditioner for a PDE linearization based on overlapping subsets of nodes from a global discretization. It has previously been shown how to apply Schwarz preconditioning to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Kevin W. Aiton , Tobin A. Driscoll

Preconditioning has long been a staple technique in optimization, often applied to reduce the condition number of a matrix and speed up the convergence of algorithms. Although there are many popular preconditioning techniques in practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Zhaonan Qu , Wenzhi Gao , Oliver Hinder , Yinyu Ye , Zhengyuan Zhou

This paper introduces the sparsifying preconditioner for the pseudospectral approximation of highly indefinite systems on periodic structures, which include the frequency-domain response problems of the Helmholtz equation and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Lexing Ying

PDE-constrained optimization aims at finding optimal setups for partial differential equations so that relevant quantities are minimized. Including sparsity promoting terms in the formulation of such problems results in more practically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Margherita Porcelli , Valeria Simoncini , Martin Stoll

Domain decomposition (DD) methods are a natural way to take advantage of parallel computers when solving large scale linear systems. Their scalability depends on the design of the coarse space used in the two-level method. The analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Frédéric Nataf , Emile Parolin

Sparse direct linear solvers are at the computational core of domain decomposition preconditioners and therefore have a strong impact on their performance. In this paper, we consider the Fast and Robust Overlapping Schwarz (FROSch) solver…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Alexander Heinlein , Bjoern Kiefer , Stefan Prüger , Oliver Rheinbach , Friederike Röver

We apply preconditioning, which is widely used in classical solvers for linear systems $A\textbf{x}=\textbf{b}$, to the variational quantum linear solver. By utilizing incomplete LU factorization as a preconditioner for linear equations…

Despite hundreds of papers on preconditioned linear systems of equations, there remains a significant lack of comprehensive performance benchmarks comparing various preconditioners for solving symmetric positive definite (SPD) systems. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Marc A. Tunnell , David F. Gleich

In this paper, we address the efficient numerical solution of linear and quadratic programming problems, often of large scale. With this aim, we devise an infeasible interior point method, blended with the proximal method of multipliers,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Luca Bergamaschi , Jacek Gondzio , Ángeles Martínez , John W. Pearson , Spyridon Pougkakiotis

The emergence of low precision floating-point arithmetic in computer hardware has led to a resurgence of interest in the use of mixed precision numerical linear algebra. For linear systems of equations, there has been renewed enthusiasm for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma

The multilevel Schwarz preconditioner is one of the most popular parallel preconditioners for enhancing convergence and improving parallel efficiency. However, its parallel implementation on arbitrary unstructured triangular/tetrahedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Chengdi Ma

This paper rigorously analyses preconditioners for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with absorption, where the PDE is discretised using curl-conforming finite-element methods of fixed, arbitrary order and the preconditioner is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Marcella Bonazzoli , Victorita Dolean , Ivan G. Graham , Euan A. Spence , Pierre-Henri Tournier

The discretization of certain integral equations, e.g., the first-kind Fredholm equation of Laplace's equation, leads to symmetric positive-definite linear systems, where the coefficient matrix is dense and often ill-conditioned. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Chao Chen , George Biros

In this paper, a two-level additive Schwarz preconditioner is proposed for solving the algebraic systems resulting from the finite element approximations of space fractional partial differential equations (SFPDEs). It is shown that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Yingjun Jiang , Xuejun Xu

This work aims to accelerate the convergence of proximal gradient methods used to solve regularized linear inverse problems. This is achieved by designing a polynomial-based preconditioner that targets the eigenvalue spectrum of the normal…

Solving the linear elasticity and Stokes equations by an optimal domain decomposition method derived algebraically involves the use of non standard interface conditions. The one-level domain decomposition preconditioners are based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Michał Bosy , Victorita Dolean