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We present an adaptive space-time mesh refinement approach based a domain decomposition approach (Singh and Wheeler, 2018) that allows different time-step sizes and mesh refinements in different subdomains. Our numerical experiments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Gurpreet Singh , Mary F. Wheeler

The Material Point Method (MPM) is a numerical technique that combines a fixed Eulerian background grid and Lagrangian point masses to simulate materials which undergo large deformations. Within the original MPM, discontinuous gradients of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Pascal de Koster , Roel Tielen , Elizaveta Wobbes , Matthias Möller

We present a two-level overlapping Schwarz preconditioner for three-dimensional problems discretized with the Virtual Element Method. Our approach handles general polyhedral meshes and irregular subdomains, extending the applicability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ana Aguilar-Pineda , Luis F. Amey , Adrian Angulo-Paniagua , Juan G. Calvo

The Material Point Method (MPM) is widely used to analyse coupled (solid-water) problems under large deformations/displacements. However, if not addressed carefully, MPM u-p formulations for poro-mechanics can be affected by two major…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Giuliano Pretti , Robert E. Bird , Nathan D. Gavin , William M. Coombs , Charles E. Augarde

Solving large-scale Helmholtz problems discretized with high-order finite elements is notoriously difficult, especially in 3D where direct factorization of the system matrix is very expensive and memory demanding, and robust convergence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Boris Martin , Pierre Jolivet , Christophe Geuzaine

The material point method (MPM) is a hybrid particle-grid method widely used for simulating large deformation with history-dependent behavior. Standard MPM often relies on a dense background grid, which can be highly inefficient when…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yidong Zhao , Lars Blatny , Xiang Feng , Mikkel M. Juel , Chenfanfu Jiang , Johan Gaume

Contact phenomena are essential in understanding the behavior of mechanical systems. Existing computational approaches for simulating mechanical contact often encounter numerical issues, such as inaccurate physical predictions, energy…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-13 A. Mota , D. Koliesnikova , I. Tezaur , J. Hoy

We present an optimize-then-discretize framework for solving linear-quadratic optimal control problems (OCP) governed by time-inhomogeneous ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Our method employs a modified overlapping Schwarz…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Hongli Zhao , Mihai Anitescu , Sen Na

A two-level overlapping Schwarz method is developed for second order elliptic problems with highly oscillatory and high contrast coefficients, for which it is known that the standard coarse problem fails to give a robust preconditioner. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Junxian Wang , Eric Chung , Hyea Hyun Kim

Additive overlapping Schwarz Methods are iterative methods of the domain decomposition type for the solution of partial differential equations. Numerical and parallel scalability of these methods can be achieved by adding coarse levels. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Stephan Köhler , Oliver Rheinbach

We present an overlapping Schwarz decomposition algorithm for constrained quadratic programs (QPs). Schwarz algorithms have been traditionally used to solve linear algebra systems arising from partial differential equations, but we have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Sungho Shin , Mihai Anitescu , Victor M. Zavala

The goal of this work is to construct and study hybrid and multiplicative two-level overlapping Schwarz algorithms with standard coarse spaces for the almost incompressible linear elasticity and Stokes systems, discretized by mixed finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Mingchao Cai , Luca F. Pavarino

We consider a scalar wave propagation in harmonic regime modelled by Helmholtz equation with heterogeneous coefficients. Using the Multi-Trace Formalism (MTF), we propose a new variant of the Optimized Schwarz Method (OSM) that can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Xavier Claeys

We analyse parallel overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition methods for the Helmholtz equation, where the subdomain problems satisfy first-order absorbing (impedance) transmission conditions, and exchange of information between subdomains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Shihua Gong , Martin J. Gander , Ivan G. Graham , David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence

We present scalable implementations of spectral-element-based Schwarz overlapping (overset) methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations. Our SEM-based overset grid method is implemented at the level of the NS equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-19 Ketan Mittal , Som Dutta , Paul Fischer

The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Krishnan Suresh

We present a novel, physically-based morphing technique for elastic shapes, leveraging the differentiable material point method (MPM) with space-time control through per-particle deformation gradients to accommodate complex topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Michael Xu , Chang-Yong Song , David I. W. Levin , David Hyde

The paper is concerned with overlapping domain decomposition and exponential time differencing for the diffusion equation discretized in space by cell-centered finite differences. Two localized exponential time differencing methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Thi-Thao-Phuong Hoang , Lili Ju , Zhu Wang

The favored phase field method (PFM) has encountered challenges in the finite strain fracture modeling of nearly or truly incompressible hyperelastic materials. We identified that the underlying cause lies in the innate contradiction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Fucheng Tian , Jun Zeng , Mengnan Zhang , Liangbin Li

We analyze the convergence of the (algebraic) multiplicative Schwarz method applied to linear algebraic systems with matrices having a special block structure that arises, for example, when a (partial) differential equation is posed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Carlos Echeverría , Jörg Liesen , Petr Tichý