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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

Direct factorization methods for the solution of large, sparse linear systems that arise from PDE discretizations are robust, but typically show poor time and memory scalability for large systems. In this paper, we describe an efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Jeffrey N. Chadwick , David S. Bindel

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

In this manuscript, we present a collective multigrid algorithm to solve efficiently the large saddle-point systems of equations that typically arise in PDE-constrained optimization under uncertainty, and develop a novel convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Gabriele Ciaramella , Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

In this work, we develop algebraic solvers for linear systems arising from the discretization of second-order elliptic partial differential equations by saddle-point mixed finite element methods of arbitrary polynomial degree $p \ge 0$ on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ani Miraçi , Jan Papež , Martin Vohralík , Ivan Yotov

Multigrid methods are popular iterative methods for solving large-scale sparse systems of linear equations. We present a mixed precision formulation of the multigrid V-cycle with general assumptions on the finite precision errors coming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Petr Vacek , Hartwig Anzt , Erin Carson , Nils Kohl , Ulrich Rüde , Yu-Hsiang Tsai

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

Cholesky linear solvers are a critical bottleneck in challenging applications within computer graphics and scientific computing. These applications include but are not limited to elastodynamic barrier methods such as Incremental Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Behrooz Zarebavani , Danny M. Kaufman , David I. W. Levin , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

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

This paper presents a new fast iterative solver for large systems involving kernel matrices. Advantageous aspects of H2 matrix approximations and the multigrid method are hybridized to create the H2-MG algorithm. This combination provides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Daria Sushnikova , George Turkiyyah , Edmond Chow , David Keyes

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

Techniques based on $k$-th order Hodge Laplacian operators $L_k$ are widely used to describe the topology as well as the governing dynamics of high-order systems modeled as simplicial complexes. In all of them, it is required to solve a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Anton Savostianov , Francesco Tudisco , Nicola Guglielmi

We propose an efficient numerical algorithm for the solution of diffeomorphic image registration problems. We use a variational formulation constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE), where the constraints are a scalar transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Andreas Mang , George Biros

An approach is given for solving large linear systems that combines Krylov methods with use of two different grid levels. Eigenvectors are computed on the coarse grid and used to deflate eigenvalues on the fine grid. GMRES-type methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Ronald B. Morgan , Travis Whyte , Walter Wilcox , Zhao Yang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Ben S. Southworth , Abdullah A. Sivas , Sander Rhebergen

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

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

This paper presents a matrix-free multigrid method for solving the Stokes problem, discretized using $H^{\text{div}}$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin methods. We employ a Schur complement method combined with the fast diagonalization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Cu Cui , Guido Kanschat

In this article we construct and analyze multigrid preconditioners for discretizations of operators of the form D+K* K, where D is the multiplication with a relatively smooth positive function and K is a compact linear operator. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Andrei Draganescu , Cosmin Petra

Hierarchical matrices provide a highly memory-efficient way of storing dense linear operators arising, for example, from boundary element methods, particularly when stored in the H^2 format. In such data-sparse representations, iterative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Sven Christophersen