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We consider the use of multipreconditioning to solve linear systems when more than one preconditioner is available but the optimal choice is not known. In particular, we consider a selective multipreconditioned GMRES algorithm where we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Niall Bootland , Andrew Wathen

We present and analyze a two-level restricted additive Schwarz (RAS) preconditioner for heterogeneous Helmholtz problems, based on a multiscale spectral generalized finite element method (MS-GFEM) proposed in [C. Ma, C. Alber, and R.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Chupeng Ma , Christian Alber , Robert Scheichl , Yongwei Zhang

We revisit the Hierarchical Poincar\'e-Steklov (HPS) method in a preconditioned iterative setting for variable-coefficient Helmholtz problems with impedance boundary conditions. HPS is commonly presented as a direct solver based on nested…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 J. P. Lucero Lorca

We analyse two-level Schwarz domain-decomposition GMRES preconditioners -- both the classic additive Schwarz preconditioner and a hybrid variant -- for finite-element discretisations of the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k$, where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Ivan G. Graham , Euan A. Spence

In this paper, we provide the constraint energy minimization generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) to solve Helmholtz equations in heterogeneous medium. This novel multiscale method is specifically designed to overcome…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Xingguang Jin , Changqing Ye , Eric T. Chung

Linear systems with large differences between coefficients ("discontinuous coefficients") arise in many cases in which partial differential equations(PDEs) model physical phenomena involving heterogeneous media. The standard approach to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2009-05-04 Dan Gordon , Rachel Gordon

This paper rigorously analyses preconditioners for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with absorption, where the PDE is discretised using curl-conforming finite-element methods of fixed, arbitrary order and the preconditioner is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Marcella Bonazzoli , Victorita Dolean , Ivan G. Graham , Euan A. Spence , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We introduce a new general purpose multiresolution preconditioner for symmetric linear systems. Most existing multiresolution preconditioners use some standard wavelet basis that relies on knowledge of the geometry of the underlying domain.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Risi Kondor

The Helmholtz equation with variable wavenumbers is challenging to solve numerically due to the pollution effect, which often results in a huge ill-conditioned linear system. In this paper, we present a high-order wavelet Galerkin method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Bin Han , Michelle Michelle

Multistep matrix splitting iterations serve as preconditioning for Krylov subspace methods for solving singular linear systems. The preconditioner is applied to the generalized minimal residual (GMRES) method and the flexible GMRES (FGMRES)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Keiichi Morikuni

The Helmholtz equation poses significant computational challenges due to its oscillatory solutions, particularly for large wavenumbers. Inspired by the Schur complement system for elliptic problems, this paper presents a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Yi Yu , Marcus Sarkis , Guanglian Li , Zhiwen Zhang

The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic obstacle scattering problems by a bounded scatterer. This paper presents the directional preconditioner for the iterative solution of linear systems of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Lexing Ying

This paper presents an efficient preconditioner for the Lippmann-Schwinger equation that combines the ideas of the sparsifying and the sweeping preconditioners. Following first the idea of the sparsifying preconditioner, this new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Fei Liu , Lexing Ying

Due to its significance in terms of wave phenomena a considerable effort has been put into the design of preconditioners for the Helmholtz equation. One option to derive a preconditioner is to apply a multigrid method on a shifted operator.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Daniel Drzisga , Tobias Köppl , Barbara Wohlmuth

This paper introduces a new pseudodifferential preconditioner for the Helmholtz equation in variable media with absorption. The pseudodifferential operator is associated with the multiplicative inverse to the symbol of the Helmholtz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Sebastian Acosta , Tahsin Khajah , Benjamin Palacios

This work considers the convergence of GMRES for non-singular problems. GMRES is interpreted as the GCR method which allows for simple proofs of the convergence estimates. Preconditioning and weighted norms within GMRES are considered. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Nicole Spillane

Consider the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic wave by multiple well separated rigid particles in two dimensions. To avoid using the complex Green's tensor of the elastic wave equation, we utilize the Helmholtz decomposition to convert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Jun Lai , Peijun Li

We present a two-level preconditioner for solving linear systems arising from the discretization of the elliptic, linear-elastic deformation equation, in displacement unknowns, over domains that have arbitrary geometric and topological…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Sabit Mahmood Khan , Yashar Mehmani

This paper introduces the sparsifying preconditioner for the pseudospectral approximation of highly indefinite systems on periodic structures, which include the frequency-domain response problems of the Helmholtz equation and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Lexing Ying

The Helmholtz equation is related to seismic exploration, sonar, antennas, and medical imaging applications. It is one of the most challenging problems to solve in terms of accuracy and convergence due to the scalability issues of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Jinqiang Chen , Vandana Dwarka , Cornelis Vuik