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We investigate several robust preconditioners for solving the saddle-point linear systems that arise from spatial discretization of unsteady and steady variable-coefficient Stokes equations on a uniform staggered grid. Building on the…

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We present an adaptive grid matrix-free operator approximation scheme based on a "product-convolution" interpolation of convolution operators. This scheme is appropriate for operators that are locally translation-invariant, even if these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Nick Alger , Vishwas Rao , Aaron Myers , Tan Bui-Thanh , Omar Ghattas

Optimization problems with constraints in the form of a partial differential equation arise frequently in the process of engineering design. The discretization of PDE-constrained optimization problems results in large-scale linear systems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Jacek Gondzio , Pavel Zhlobich

We investigate the potential of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to solve large-scale nonlinear programs with a dynamic structure. Using ExaModels, a GPU-accelerated automatic differentiation tool, and the interior-point solver MadNLP, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 François Pacaud , Sungho Shin

Schur complement matrices emerge in many domain decomposition methods that can solve complex engineering problems using supercomputers. Today, as most of the high-performance clusters' performance lies in GPUs, these methods should also be…

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We propose a matrix-free finite element (FE) homogenization scheme that is considerably more efficient than generic FE implementations. The efficiency of our scheme follows from a preconditioned well-scaled reformulation allowing for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Martin Ladecký , Richard J. Leute , Ali Falsafi , Ivana Pultarová , Lars Pastewka , Till Junge , Jan Zeman

Many scientific and engineering challenges can be formulated as optimization problems which are constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs). These include inverse problems, control problems, and design problems. As a major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-25 Lasse Hjuler Christiansen , John Bagterp Jørgensen

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

The immersed boundary (IB) method has become a leading approach in cardiac fluid-structure interaction (FSI) modeling due to its ability to handle large deformations and complex geometries without requiring mesh regeneration. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Pengfei Ma , Li Cai , Xuan Wang , Hao Gao

In this paper we present a unified framework for constructing spectrally equivalent low-order-refined discretizations for the high-order finite element de Rham complex. This theory covers diffusion problems in $H^1$, $H({\rm curl})$, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Will Pazner , Tzanio Kolev , Clark Dohrmann

We propose a uniform block-diagonal preconditioner for condensed $H$(div)-conforming HDG schemes for parameter-dependent saddle point problems, including the generalized Stokes equations and the linear elasticity equations. An optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Guosheng Fu , Wenzheng Kuang

We propose an efficient solver for saddle point problems arising from finite element approximations of nonlocal multi-phase Allen--Cahn variational inequalities. The solver is seen to behave mesh independently and to have only a very mild…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 David Kay , Vanessa Styles

We are interested in solving linear systems arising from three applications: (1) kernel methods in machine learning, (2) discretization of boundary integral equations from mathematical physics, and (3) Schur complements formed in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Chao Chen , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Dynamic programming (DP) is a cornerstone of combinatorial optimization, yet its inherently sequential structure has long limited its scalability in scenario-based stochastic programming (SP). This paper introduces a GPU-accelerated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jingyi Zhao , Linxin Yang , Haohua Zhang , Tian Ding

Recent research has focused on developing GPU-accelerated first-order solvers for linear programming (LP). This line of work, however, has largely overlooked the role of presolving, and thus prior results do not fully reflect the speedups…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Daniel Cederberg , Stephen Boyd

In this paper, we address a long-standing challenge: how to achieve both efficiency and scalability in solving semidefinite programming problems. We propose breakthrough acceleration techniques for a wide range of low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Qiushi Han , Zhenwei Lin , Hanwen Liu , Caihua Chen , Qi Deng , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

This paper introduces an efficient and generic framework for finite-element simulations under an implicit time integration scheme. Being compatible with generic constitutive models, a fast matrix assembly method exploits the fact that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ziqiu Zeng , Hadrien Courtecuisse

This paper presents efficient data structures for the implementation of matrix-free finite element methods on block-structured, hybrid tetrahedral grids. It provides a complete categorization of all geometric sub-objects that emerge from…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Nils Kohl , Daniel Bauer , Fabian Böhm , Ulrich Rüde

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

We introduce a new preconditioner for a recently developed pressure-robust hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) finite element discretization of the Stokes equations. A feature of HDG methods is the straightforward elimination of…

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