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We present a novel numerical method for solving the elliptic partial differential equation problem for the electrostatic potential with piecewise constant conductivity. We employ an integral equation approach for which we derive a system of…

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We introduce generalised finite difference methods for solving fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. Methods are based on piecewise Cartesian meshes augmented by additional points along the boundary. This allows for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Brittany D. Froese , Tiago Salvador

Nonlinear elliptic problems arise in many fields, including plasma physics, astrophysics, and optimal transport. In this article, we propose a novel operator-splitting/finite element method for solving such problems. We begin by introducing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Jingyu Yang , Shingyu Leung , Jianliang Qian , Hao Liu

We present in this paper algorithms for solving stiff PDEs on the unit sphere with spectral accuracy in space and fourth-order accuracy in time. These are based on a variant of the double Fourier sphere method in coefficient space with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Hadrien Montanelli , Yuji Nakatsukasa

In multi-phase fluid flow, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications, partial differential equations (PDEs) often arise with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources (e.g., Dirac delta functions). These complexities arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Chung-Nan Tzou , Samuel Stechmann

We present a new solver for coupled nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The solver is based on pseudo-spectral collocation with domain decomposition and can handle one- to three-dimensional problems. It has three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

In this paper, we propose a fast spectral-Galerkin method for solving PDEs involving integral fractional Laplacian in $\mathbb{R}^d$, which is built upon two essential components: (i) the Dunford-Taylor formulation of the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Changtao Sheng , Jie Shen , Tao Tang , Li-Lian Wang , Huifang Yuan

We present a general and scalable framework for the automated discovery of optimal meta-solvers for the solution of time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations after appropriate discretization. By integrating classical numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Youngkyu Lee , Shanqing Liu , Jerome Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lilian Welschinger , Yilin Liu , Zican Wang , Niloy Mitra

A spectral method for solving linear partial differential equations (PDEs) with variable coefficients and general boundary conditions defined on rectangular domains is described, based on separable representations of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Alex Townsend , Sheehan Olver

At present, deep learning based methods are being employed to resolve the computational challenges of high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs). But the computation of the high order derivatives of neural networks is costly,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Quanhui Zhu , Jiang Yang

We present a fast direct solver for structured linear systems based on multilevel matrix compression. Using the recently developed interpolative decomposition of a low-rank matrix in a recursive manner, we embed an approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Kenneth L. Ho , Leslie Greengard

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used across the physical and computational sciences. Decades of research and engineering went into designing fast iterative solution methods. Existing solvers are general purpose, but may be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Shengjia Zhao , Stephan Eismann , Lucia Mirabella , Stefano Ermon

Solving high-dimensional parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with deep learning methods is often computationally and memory intensive, primarily due to the need for automatic differentiation (AD) to compute large Hessian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Wei Cai , Shuixin Fang , Tao Zhou

We present novel model reduction methods for rapid solution of parametrized nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in real-time or many-query contexts. Our approach combines reduced basis (RB) space for rapidly convergent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Ngoc Cuong Nguyen

We propose an explicit construction of Poincar\'e operators for the lowest order finite element spaces, by employing spanning trees in the grid. In turn, a stable decomposition of the discrete spaces is derived that leads to an efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Wietse M. Boon

The paper studies a method for solving elliptic partial differential equations posed on hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N=2,3$. The method builds upon the formulation introduced in Bertalmio et al., J. Comput. Phys., 174 (2001),…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

An efficient direct solver for solving the Lippmann-Schwinger integral equation modeling acoustic scattering in the plane is presented. For a problem with $N$ degrees of freedom, the solver constructs an approximate inverse in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Abinand Gopal , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 J. P. Lucero Lorca

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) arise in many areas of computational sciences such as computational fluid dynamics, biophysics, engineering, geophysics and more. They are difficult to solve due to their global nature and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Damyn M Chipman