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We consider a Runge--Kutta method for the numerical time integration of the nonstationary incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. This yields a sequence of nonlinear problems to be solved for the stages of the Runge--Kutta method. The…

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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…

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Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including carbon sequestration, contaminant remediation, and groundwater management. Typically, this process is modeled by a nonlinear system of partial differential…

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Augmented Lagrangian preconditioners have successfully yielded Reynolds-robust preconditioners for the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, but only for specific discretizations. The discretizations for which these…

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We present an enhanced version of the row-based randomized block-Kaczmarz method to solve a linear system of equations. This improvement makes use of a regularization during block updates in the solution, and a dynamic proposal distribution…

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This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical investigation of an augmented Lagrangian method for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. Specifically, we study situations where parts of the constraints…

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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…

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Preconditioned Krylov subspace (KSP) methods are widely used for solving large-scale sparse linear systems arising from numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs). These linear systems are often nonsymmetric due to the…

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The Onsager-Stefan-Maxwell (OSM) equations are an important model of mass transport in multicomponent flows with multiple chemical species. They describe the coupling of diffusive fluxes between species, accounting for their interactions…

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This paper studies the solution of nonsymmetric linear systems by preconditioned Krylov methods based on the normal equations, LSQR in particular. On some examples, preconditioned LSQR is seen to produce errors many orders of magnitude…

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When studying the dynamics of incompressible fluids in bounded domains the only available data often provide average flow rate conditions on portions of the domain's boundary. In engineering applications a common practice to complete these…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Luca Crugnola , Christian Vergara

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

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In this paper, we consider an efficient iterative approach to the solution of the discrete Helmholtz equation with Dirichlet, Neumann and Sommerfeld-like boundary conditions based on a compact sixth order approximation scheme and…

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Navier-Stokes equations are well known in modelling of an incompressible Newtonian fluid, such as air or water. This system of equations is very complex due to the non-linearity term that characterizes it. After the linearization and the…

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We propose an efficient iterative method to solve the mixed Stokes-Dracy model for coupling fluid and porous media flow. The weak formulation of this problem leads to a coupled, indefinite, ill-conditioned and symmetric linear system of…

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The efficient solution of moderately large-scale linear systems arising from the KKT conditions in optimal control problems (OCPs) is a critical challenge in robotics. With the stagnation of Moore's law, there is growing interest in…

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Modeling cardiovascular blood flow is central to many applications in biomedical engineering. To accommodate the complexity of the cardiovascular system, in terms of boundary conditions and surrounding vascular tissue, computational fluid…

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In [McDonald, Pestana and Wathen, \textit{SIAM J. Sci. Comput.}, 40 (2018), pp. A1012--A1033], a block circulant preconditioner is proposed for all-at-once linear systems arising from evolutionary partial differential equations, in which…

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In this paper we propose a variant of the substructuring preconditioner for solving three-dimensional elliptic-type equations with strongly discontinuous coefficients. In the proposed preconditioner, we use the simplest coarse solver…

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