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We analyze and test using Fourier extensions that minimize a Hilbert space norm for the purpose of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces. In particular, we prove that the approach is arbitrarily high-order and also show…

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Partial differential equations (PDEs) are often computationally challenging to solve, and in many settings many related PDEs must be be solved either at every timestep or for a variety of candidate boundary conditions, parameters, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Tian Qin , Alex Beatson , Deniz Oktay , Nick McGreivy , Ryan P. Adams

In this paper we present an error analysis of an Eulerian finite element method for solving parabolic partial differential equations posed on evolving hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$. The method employs discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

We present a new direct logarithmically optimal in theory and fast in practice algorithm to implement the high order finite element method on multi-dimensional rectangular parallelepipeds for solving PDEs of the Poisson kind. The key points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Alexander Zlotnik , Ilya Zlotnik

In this paper we present a new Eulerian finite element method for the discretization of scalar partial differential equations on evolving surfaces. In this method we use the restriction of standard space-time finite element spaces on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Hauke Sass , Arnold Reusken

High-order spatial discretisations and full discretisations of parabolic partial differential equations on evolving surfaces are studied. We prove convergence of the high-order evolving surface finite element method, by showing high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Balázs Kovács

This work considers the iterative solution of large-scale problems subject to non-symmetric matrices or operators arising in discretizations of (port-)Hamiltonian partial differential equations. We consider problems governed by an operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Volker Mehrmann , Manuel Schaller , Martin Stoll

Spectral methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) often use Fourier or polynomial spectral expansions on either uniform and non-uniform grids. However, while very widely…

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This work presents uniform preconditioners for the discrete Laplace--Beltrami operator on hypersurfaces. In particular, within the framework of fast auxiliary space preconditioning (FASP), we develop efficient and user-friendly multilevel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Yuwen Li

The recently developed Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method is a high-order discretization technique that comes with a direct solver. Results from previous papers demonstrate the method's ability to solve Helmholtz problems to high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Natalie Beams , Adrianna Gillman , Russell J. Hewett

The integral equation approach to partial differential equations (PDEs) provides significant advantages in the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In particular, the divergence-free condition and boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Ludvig af Klinteberg , Travis Askham , Mary Catherine Kropinski

We devise a Hybrid High-Order (HHO) method for highly oscillatory elliptic problems that is capable of handling general meshes. The method hinges on discrete unknowns that are polynomials attached to the faces and cells of a coarse mesh;…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Matteo Cicuttin , Alexandre Ern , Simon Lemaire

We study first-order optimization methods obtained by discretizing ordinary differential equations (ODEs) corresponding to Nesterov's accelerated gradient methods (NAGs) and Polyak's heavy-ball method. We consider three discretization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Bin Shi , Simon S. Du , Weijie J. Su , Michael I. Jordan

Poisson's equation is the canonical elliptic partial differential equation. While there exist fast Poisson solvers for finite difference and finite element methods, fast Poisson solvers for spectral methods have remained elusive. Here, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Daniel Fortunato , Alex Townsend

This paper presents a fast high-order method for the solution of two-dimensional problems of scattering by penetrable inhomogeneous media, with application to high-frequency configurations containing (possibly) discontinuous refractivities.…

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We introduce suitable coordinate systems for pipes and their variants that allow us to transform partial differential equations (PDEs) on the pipe surfaces or in the solid pipes into computational domains with fixed limits/ranges. Such a…

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In this paper, we propose fast solvers for Maxwell's equations in rectangular domains. We first discretize the simplified Maxwell's eigenvalue problems by employing the lowest-order rectangular N\'ed\'elec elements and derive the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Lixiu Wang , Lueling Jia , Zijian Cao , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

A fast multigrid solver is presented for high-order accurate Stokes problems discretised by local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods. The multigrid algorithm consists of a simple V-cycle, using an element-wise block Gauss-Seidel smoother.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Robert Saye

In this paper, we propose high order numerical methods to solve a 2D advection diffusion equation, in the highly oscillatory regime. We use an integrator strategy that allows the construction of arbitrary high-order schemes {leading} to an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Clarissa Astuto

In a Hilbert setting, we develop a gradient-based dynamic approach for fast solving convex optimization problems. By applying time scaling, averaging, and perturbation techniques to the continuous steepest descent (SD), we obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Hedy Attouch , Radu Ioan Bot , Dang-Khoa Nguyen