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This work presents a novel agglomeration-based multilevel preconditioner designed to accelerate the convergence of iterative solvers for linear systems arising from the discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the monodomain model in…

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Solving the normal equations corresponding to large sparse linear least-squares problems is an important and challenging problem. For very large problems, an iterative solver is needed and, in general, a preconditioner is required to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Hussam Al Daas , Pierre Jolivet , Jennifer Scott

We consider geometric multigrid methods for the solution of linear systems arising from isogeometric discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations. For classical finite elements, such methods are well known to be fast solvers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Clemens Hofreither , Stefan Takacs , Walter Zulehner

We consider a linear iterative solver for large scale linearly constrained quadratic minimization problems that arise, for example, in optimization with PDEs. By a primal-dual projection (PDP) iteration, which can be interpreted and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Anton Schiela , Matthias Stöcklein , Martin Weiser

This manuscript is the second in a series presenting fast direct solution techniques for solving two-dimensional wave scattering problems from quasi-periodic multilayered structures. The fast direct solvers presented in the series are for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Yabin Zhang , Adrianna Gillman

In this article, we introduce a fast and memory efficient solver for sparse matrices arising from the finite element discretization of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). We use a fast direct (but approximate) multifrontal…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-04-23 AmirHossein Aminfar , Eric Darve

Mixed-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are characterized by coupled operators defined on domains of varying dimensions and pose significant computational challenges due to their inherent ill-conditioning. Moreover, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Nunzio Dimola , Nicola Rares Franco , Paolo Zunino

In many applications, one wants to model physical systems consisting of two different physical processes in two different domains that are coupled across a common interface. A crucial challenge is then that the solutions of the two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Karl Erik Holter , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal

The goal of this paper is to design optimal multilevel solvers for the finite element approximation of second order linear elliptic problems with piecewise constant coefficients on bisection grids. Local multigrid and BPX preconditioners…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-13 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu , Yunrong Zhu

We consider the parallel-in-time solution of hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) systems in one spatial dimension, both linear and nonlinear. In the nonlinear setting, the discretized equations are solved with a preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-10 O. A. Krzysik , H. De Sterck , R. D. Falgout , J. B. Schroder

A multiscale optimization framework for problems over a space of Lipschitz continuous functions is developed. The method solves a coarse-grid discretization followed by linear interpolation to warm-start project gradient descent on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Nicholas J. E. Richardson , Noah Marusenko , Michael P. Friedlander

When solving linear systems arising from PDE discretizations, iterative methods (such as Conjugate Gradient, GMRES, or MINRES) are often the only practical choice. To converge in a small number of iterations, however, they have to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Bazyli Klockiewicz , Eric Darve

Isogeometric analysis (IgA) offers enhanced approximation capabilities for the discretization of elliptic boundary-value problems, yet it results in large, sparse, and increasingly ill-conditioned linear systems due to higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Pasqua D'Ambra , Fabio Durastante , Salvatore Filippone

We propose an adaptive multigrid preconditioning technology for solving linear systems arising from Discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations. Unlike standard multigrid techniques, this preconditioner involves only trace spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

We introduce a new iterative method for computing solutions of elliptic equations with random rapidly oscillating coefficients. Similarly to a multigrid method, each step of the iteration involves different computations meant to address…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 S. Armstrong , A. Hannukainen , T. Kuusi , J. -C. Mourrat

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White

In this paper, we consider a microscopic semilinear elliptic equation posed in periodically perforated domains and associated with the Fourier-type condition on internal micro-surfaces. The first contribution of this work is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Vo Anh Khoa , Thieu Thi Kim Thoa , Ekeoma Rowland Ijioma

Efficient solution of 3D elasticity problems is an important part of many industrial and scientific applications. Smoothed aggregation algebraic multigrid using rigid body modes for the tentative prolongation operator construction is an…

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We consider a nonlinear mixed-dimensional model for simulating gas transport in shale formation. The mathematical model consists of a coupled system of nonlinear equations, where flow within fractures is represented using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Maria Vasilyeva , Ben S. Southworth , Shubin Fu

This paper is concerned with the design, analysis and implementation of preconditioning concepts for spectral Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic boundary value problems. While presently known techniques realize a growth of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Kolja Brix , Martin Campos Pinto , Claudio Canuto , Wolfgang Dahmen