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Within the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of the glass transition, we reconsider the numerical schemes to evaluate the MCT functional. Here we propose nonuniform discretizations of the wave number, in contrast to the standard equidistant grid,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-12-10 Michele Caraglio , Lukas Schrack , Gerhard Jung , Thomas Franosch

In recent years, commercial HTS superconductors have gained an increasing interest for their use in applications involving large-scale superconductor systems. These systems are typically made from hundreds to thousands of turns of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-15 Edgar Berrospe-Juarez , Victor M. R. Zermeno , Frederic Trillaud , Francesco Grilli

Recently Ahmadi et al. (2021) and Tagliaferro (2022) proposed some iterative methods for the numerical solution of linear systems which, under the classical hypothesis of strict diagonal dominance, typically converge faster than the Jacobi…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Paolo Novati , Fulvio Tagliaferro , Marino Zennaro

The paper develops a Newton multigrid (MG) method for one- and two-dimensional steady-state shallow water equations (SWEs) with topography and dry areas.It solves the nonlinear system arising from the well-balanced finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Kailiang Wu , Huazhong Tang

We propose the interpolatory hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (Interpolatory HDG) method for a class of scalar parabolic semilinear PDEs. The Interpolatory HDG method uses an interpolation procedure to efficiently and accurately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Bernardo Cockburn , John Richard Singler , Yangwen Zhang

Hermite methods, as introduced by Goodrich et al., combine Hermite interpolation and staggered (dual) grids to produce stable high order accurate schemes for the solution of hyperbolic PDEs. We introduce three variations of this Hermite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Arturo Vargas , Jesse Chan , Thomas Hagstrom , Tim Warburton

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is often viewed as a scalable $\mathcal{O}(n)$ solver for sparse linear systems. Yet, parallel AMG lacks scalability due to increasingly large costs associated with communication, both in the initial construction…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Amanda Bienz , Luke Olson , William Gropp

We present a comparison of different multigrid approaches for the solution of systems arising from high-order continuous finite element discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations on complex geometries. We consider the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-09 Hari Sundar , Georg Stadler , George Biros

To improve the computational efficiency of heat transfer topology optimization, a Multigrid Assisted Reanalysis (MGAR) method is proposed in this study. The MGAR not only significantly improves the computational efficiency, but also…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Jichao Yin , Hu Wang , Daozhen Guo , Shuhao Li

In this paper we present a multilevel projection-based iterative scheme for solving thermal radiative transfer problems that performs iteration cycles on the high-order Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and low-order moment equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Joseph M. Coale , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

In this paper, a novel multigrid method based on Newton iteration is proposed to solve nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Instead of handling the eigenvalue $\lambda$ and eigenfunction $u$ separately, we treat the eigenpair $(\lambda, u)$ as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Fei Xu , Manting Xie , Meiling Yue

A high-order Newton multigrid method is proposed for steady-state shallow water flows in open channels with regular and irregular geometries. The method integrates a finite volume discretization with third-order weighted essentially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Zhicheng Hu , Guanghan Li , Chunwu Wang , Xiaowen Wang

Multiphase flow is a critical process in a wide range of applications, including oil and gas recovery, carbon sequestration, and contaminant remediation. Numerical simulation of multiphase flow requires solving of a large, sparse linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Quan M. Bui , Lu Wang , Daniel Osei-Kuffuor

A coupled hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) and boundary integral (BI) method is proposed to efficiently analyze electromagnetic scattering from inhomogeneous/composite objects. The coupling between the HDG and the BI equations is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ran Zhao , Ming Dong , Liang Chen , Jun Hu , Hakan Bagci

This paper introduces a novel geometric multigrid solver for unstructured curved surfaces. Multigrid methods are highly efficient iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. Despite the success in solving problems defined on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Jiayi Eris Zhang , Mirela Ben-Chen , Alec Jacobson

Although the linear method is one of the most robust algorithms for optimizing non-linearly parametrized wavefunctions in variational Monte Carlo, it suffers from a memory bottleneck due to the fact at each optimization step a generalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 Iliya Sabzevari , Ankit Mahajan , Sandeep Sharma

The linear polarization signals produced by scattering processes in strong resonance lines are rich in information on the magnetic and thermal structure of the chromosphere and transition region of the Sun and of other stars. A correct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Luca Belluzzi , Javier Trujillo Bueno

Iterative methods for solving large sparse systems of linear equations are widely used in many HPC applications. Extreme scaling of these methods can be difficult, however, since global communication to form dot products is typically…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Nick Brown , J. Mark Bull , Iain Bethune

We present and analyze a new space-time parallel multigrid method for parabolic equations. The method is based on arbitrarily high order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations in time, and a finite element discretization in space. The key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Martin J. Gander , Martin Neumüller

The vast majority of recent advances in the field of numerical radiative transfer relies on approximate operator methods better known in astrophysics as Accelerated Lambda-Iteration (ALI). A superior class of iterative schemes, in term of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 F. Paletou , L. Leger