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We shall propose and analyze some new preconditioners for the saddle-point systems arising from the edge element discretization of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in three dimensions. We will first consider the saddle-point systems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Hua Xiang , Shiyang Zhang , Jun Zou

This paper concerns the preconditioning technique for discrete systems arising from time-harmonic Maxwell equations with absorptions, where the discrete systems are generated by N\'ed\'elec finite element methods of fixed order on meshes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Ziyi Li , Qiya Hu

In this article, a two-level overlapping domain decomposition preconditioner is developed for solving linear algebraic systems obtained from simulating Darcy flow in high-contrast media. Our preconditioner starts at a mixed finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Changqing Ye , Shubin Fu , Eric T. Chung , Jizu Huang

It is tested whether machine learning methods can be used for preconditioning to increase the performance of the linear solver -- the backbone of the semi-implicit, grid-point model approach for weather and climate models. Embedding the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Jan Ackmann , Peter D. Düben , Tim N. Palmer , Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz

Incomplete factorization is a widely used preconditioning technique for Krylov subspace methods for solving large-scale sparse linear systems. Its multilevel variants, such as ILUPACK, are more robust for many symmetric or unsymmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Qiao Chen , Aditi Ghai , Xiangmin Jiao

In this paper, a fast solver is studied for saddle point system arising from a second-order Crank-Nicolson discretization of an initial-valued parabolic PDE constrained optimal control problem, which is indefinite and ill-conditioned.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Xue-Lei Lin , Shu-Lin Wu

We consider the numerical solution of large scale time-harmonic Maxwell equations. To this day, this problem remains difficult, in particular because the equations are neither Hermitian nor semi-definite. Our approach is to compare…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Elise Fressart , Sébastien Dubois , Loïc Gouarin , Marc Massot , Michel Nowak , Nicole Spillane

We introduce a neural-preconditioned iterative solver for Poisson equations with mixed boundary conditions. Typical Poisson discretizations yield large, ill-conditioned linear systems. Iterative solvers can be effective for these problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Kai Weixian Lan , Elias Gueidon , Ayano Kaneda , Julian Panetta , Joseph Teran

{In [X. L. Lin, M. K. Ng, and Y. Zhi. {\it J. Comput. Phys.}, 434 (2021), pp. 110221] and [Y. L. Zhao, J. Wu, X. M. Gu, and H. Li. {\it Comput. Math. Appl.}, 148(2023), pp. 200--210]}, two-sided preconditioning techniques are proposed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Xuelei Lin , Jiamei Dong , Sean Hon

We derive parameter-robust quasi-optimal error estimates for mixed finite element methods for the nonlinear Darcy--Forchheimer equations with mixed boundary conditions. Using the framework of operator preconditioning, we also design…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Rishi Das , Harsha Hutridurga , Amiya K. Pani , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

A symmetric and a nonsymmetric variant of the additive Schwarz preconditioner are proposed for the solution of a nonsymmetric system of algebraic equations arising from a general finite volume element discretization of symmetric elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Leszek Marcinkowski , Talal Rahman , Atle Loneland , Jan Valdman

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhendong Li , Akwum Onwunta , Bedřich Sousedík

This article introduces an iterative method for solving nonsingular non-Hermitian positive semidefinite systems of linear equations. To construct the iteration process, the coefficient matrix is split into two non-Hermitian positive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Mohsen Masoudi

We present the construction of additive multilevel preconditioners, also known as BPX preconditioners, for the solution of the linear system arising in isogeometric adaptive schemes with (truncated) hierarchical B-splines. We show that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Cesare Bracco , Durkbin Cho , Carlotta Giannelli , Rafael Vazquez

This paper explores preconditioning the normal equation for non-symmetric square linear systems arising from PDE discretization, focusing on methods like CGNE and LSQR. The concept of ``normal'' preconditioning is introduced and a strategy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Lorenzo Lazzarino , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Umberto Zerbinati

In the past decade, a combination of unfitted finite elements (or XFEM) with the Nitsche method has become a popular discretization method for elliptic interface problems. This development started with the introduction and analysis of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Christoph Lehrenfeld , Arnold Reusken

We propose an operator preconditioner for general elliptic pseudodifferential equations in a domain $\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is either in $\mathbb{R}^n$ or in a Riemannian manifold. For linear systems of equations arising from low-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Heiko Gimperlein , Jakub Stocek , Carolina Urzua-Torres

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

When a linear system Ax = y is solved by means of iterative methods (mainly CG and GMRES) and the convergence rate is slow, one may consider a preconditioner P. The use of such preconditioner changes the spectrum of the matrix defining the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-03 F. Tudisco , C. Di Fiore , E. E. Tyrtyshnikov

In this paper, we present a multigrid preconditioner for solving the linear system arising from the piecewise linear nonconforming Crouzeix-Raviart discretization of second order elliptic problems with jump coefficients. The preconditioner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-13 Blanca Ayuso De Dios , Michael Holst , Yunrong Zhu , Ludmil Zikatanov