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We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes flow. The spatio-temporal discretization of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-02 B. Kallemov , A. Pal Singh Bhalla , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

We present optimal preconditioners for a recently introduced hybridized discontinuous Galerkin finite element discretization of the Stokes equations. Typical of hybridized discontinuous Galerkin methods, the method has degrees-of-freedom…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Sander Rhebergen , Garth N. Wells

We design and investigate a variety of multigrid solvers for high-order local discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to elliptic interface and multiphase Stokes problems. Using the template of a standard multigrid V-cycle, we consider a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Robert I. Saye

Topology optimization problems generally support multiple local minima, and real-world applications are typically three-dimensional. In previous work [I. P. A. Papadopoulos, P. E. Farrell, and T. M. Surowiec, Computing multiple solutions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Patrick E. Farrell

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

We present a robust and efficient multigrid method for single-patch isogeometric discretizations using tensor product B-splines of maximum smoothness. Our method is based on a stable splitting of the spline space into a large subspace of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Clemens Hofreither , Stefan Takacs

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

Equilibria in magnetic confinement devices result from force balancing between the Lorentz force and the plasma pressure gradient. In an axisymmetric configuration like a tokamak, such an equilibrium is described by an elliptic equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Daniel A. Serino , Qi Tang , Xian-Zhu Tang , Tzanio V. Kolev , Konstantin Lipnikov

We present a specific-purpose globalized and preconditioned Newton-CG solver to minimize a metric-aware curved high-order mesh distortion. The solver is specially devised to optimize curved high-order meshes for high polynomial degrees with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Guillermo Aparicio-Estrems , Abel Gargallo-Peiró , Xevi Roca

This paper addresses the efficient solution of linear systems arising from curl-conforming finite element discretizations of $H(\mathrm{curl})$ elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. We first employ the discrete form of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Chupeng Ma , Yongwei Zhang

This paper presents a scalable multigrid preconditioner targeting large-scale systems arising from discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations of high-frequency wave operators. This work is built on previously developed multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Jacob Badger , Stefan Henneking , Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

It is known that the solution of a conservative steady-state two-sided fractional diffusion problem can exhibit singularities near the boundaries. As consequence of this, and due to the conservative nature of the problem, we adopt a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco Donatelli , Rolf Krause , Mariarosa Mazza , Ken Trotti

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Shuo Zhang , Jinchao Xu

We revisit the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method in a preconditioned iterative setting for variable-coefficient Helmholtz problems with impedance boundary conditions. HPS is commonly presented as a direct solver based on nested…

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This work proposes a scheme for significantly reducing the computational complexity of discretized problems involving the non-smooth forward propagation of uncertainty by combining the adaptive hierarchical sparse grid stochastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Robert L. Gates , Maximilian R. Bittens

The solution of systems of linear(ized) equations lies at the heart of many problems in Scientific Computing. In particular for systems of large dimension, iterative methods are a primary approach. Stationary iterative methods are generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Andy Wathen

Multigrid (MG) is widely recognized as a highly effective solver for the model problem, the Laplacian, but textbook MG fails on most problems of interest. MG methods have been applied to complex, real-world applications with careful…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Mark F. Adams , Jin Chen , Benjamin Sturdevant

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are generally known to be difficult to solve numerically, due to their highly nonlinear structure and the strong coupling between the electromagnetic and hydrodynamic variables, especially for high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabian Laakmann , Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell

In this paper, we construct and analyze preconditioners for the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin discretization posed in the space $H(\mathrm{div})$. These discretizations are used as one component in exactly divergence-free…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Will Pazner

The solution of matrices with $2\times 2$ block structure arises in numerous areas of computational mathematics, such as PDE discretizations based on mixed-finite element methods, constrained optimization problems, or the implicit or steady…

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