English
Related papers

Related papers: An approximate block factorization preconditioner …

200 papers

Here we consider the factorized sparse approximate inverse (FSAI) preconditioner. We apply the FSAI preconditioner to singular irreducible M-matrices. These matrices arise e.g. in discrete Markov chain modeling or as graph Laplacians. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Katherina Bick , Reinhard Nabben

Neural preconditioners for real-time physics simulation offer promising data-driven priors, but they often fail to capture long-range couplings efficiently because they inherit local message passing or sparse-operator access patterns. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Carl Osborne , Minghao Guo , Crystal Owens , Wojciech Matusik

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) and strong segregation theory (SST) are used to explore the parameter space governing the self-assembly of cylinder forming block copolymers (BCPs) on a modulated substrate. The stability of in-plane…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-16 Karim Gadelrab , Alfredo Alexander-Katz

The block structure of double saddle-point problems has prompted extensive research into efficient preconditioners. This paper introduces a novel class of three-by-three block preconditioners tailored for such systems from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Achraf Badahmane

We present a new class of preconditioned iterative methods for solving linear systems of the form $Ax = b$. Our methods are based on constructing a low-rank Nystr\"om approximation to $A$ using sparse random matrix sketching. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michał Dereziński , Christopher Musco , Jiaming Yang

We present and analyze a class of nonsymmetric preconditioners within a normal (weighted least-squares) matrix form for use in GMRES to solve nonsymmetric matrix problems that typically arise in finite element discretizations. An example of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Blanca Ayuso de Dios , Andrew T. Barker , Panayot S. Vassilevski

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order numerical methods that use numerical optimization to simultaneously compute a high-order approximation to a conservation law solution and align elements of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Jakob Vandergrift , Matthew J. Zahr

Ill-conditioning of the system matrix is a well-known complication in immersed finite element methods and trimmed isogeometric analysis. Elements with small intersections with the physical domain yield problematic eigenvalues in the system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 F. de Prenter , C. V. Verhoosel , E. H. van Brummelen , J. A. Evans , C. Messe , J. Benzaken , K. Maute

In this paper we introduce an algebraic recursive multilevel incomplete factorization preconditioner, based on a distributed Schur complement formulation, for solving general linear systems. The novelty of the proposed method is to combine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Yiming Bu , Bruno Carpentieri , Zhaoli Shen , Tingzhu Huang

A two-grid scheme based on mixed finite-element approximations to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is introduced and analyzed. In the first level the standard mixed finite-element approximation over a coarse mesh is computed. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Javier de Frutos , Bosco García-Archilla , Julia Novo

We present a strongly-coupled immersed-boundary method for flow-structure interaction problems involving thin deforming bodies. The method is stable for arbitrary choices of solid-to-fluid mass ratios and for large body motions. As with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-05 Andres Goza , Tim Colonius

We propose a new random sketching approach for embedding high-dimensional Hilbert-Schmidt operators, using random input-output pairs. Such operator can then be approximated in a low-dimensional subspace of operators by solving a small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Oleg Balabanov , Anthony Nouy , Alexandre Pasco

We develop a simple algorithmic framework to solve large-scale symmetric positive definite linear systems. At its core, the framework relies on two components: (1) a norm-convergent iterative method (i.e. smoother) and (2) a preconditioner.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Xiaozhe Hu , Shuhong Wu , Xiao-Hui Wu , Jinchao Xu , Chen-Song Zhang , Shiquan Zhang , Ludmil Zikatanov

We devise 3-field and 4-field finite element approximations of a system describing the steady state of an incompressible heat-conducting fluid with implicit non-Newtonian rheology. We prove that the sequence of numerical approximations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Patrick Farrell , Pablo Alexei Gazca Orozco , Endre Süli

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

The paper describes an improved parallel MPI-based implementation of VBARMS, a variable block variant of the pARMS preconditioner proposed by Li,~Saad and Sosonkina [NLAA, 2003] for solving general nonsymmetric linear systems. The parallel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Bruno Carpentieri , Jia Liao , Masha Sosonkina , Aldo Bonfiglioli

Purpose: Design of a preconditioner for fast and efficient parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions. Theory: Parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions become time consuming when the problem size or the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Kirsten Koolstra , Jeroen van Gemert , Peter Börnert , Andrew Webb , Rob Remis

We present a robust and scalable preconditioner for the solution of large-scale linear systems that arise from the discretization of elliptic PDEs amenable to rank compression. The preconditioner is based on hierarchical low-rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Gustavo Chávez , George Turkiyyah , Stefano Zampini , David Keyes

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Qiya Hu , Shaoliang Hu

Incomplete factorizations have long been popular general-purpose algebraic preconditioners for solving large sparse linear systems of equations. Guaranteeing the factorization is breakdown free while computing a high quality preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tůma