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By Kazuhiro Yabana Light-matter interaction is an essential topic that is relevant to many areas of basic science and engineering, including sensors, lighting, optical communications, ...
By Mirjam Walloth and Winnifried WollnerSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page B479-B505, June 2022. Within this article, we develop a residual-type a posteriori error estimator for a time discrete quasi-static...
By Youngmin Park, Prashant Singh, and Thomas G. FaiSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 793-820, June 2022. We study the dynamics of membrane vesicle motor transport into dendritic spines, which are bulbous intracellular...
By Erik Burman, Peter Hansbo, and Mats G. LarsonSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1254-A1289, June 2022. In this paper we develop a fully explicit cut finite element method for the wave equation....
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By Christina Paulin, Antoine Llor, Thibaud Vazquez-Gonzalez, Jean-Philippe Perlat, and Éric Heulhard de MontignySIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1227-A1253, June 2022. Monotonic interpolation and its avatars are major ingredients of many numerical schemes for solving partial differential...
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In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. As we recognize the importance of Asian American and Pacific Islander mathematicians throughout history and their ...
How to Be Creative: A Practical Guide for the Mathematical Sciences , written by Nicholas J. Higham and Dennis Sherwood, is a how-to guide that gives a six-step process for generating great ideas ...
By Alexander Heinlein, Axel Klawonn, Jascha Knepper, Oliver Rheinbach, and Olof B. WidlundSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1176-A1204, June 2022. A new reduced-dimension adaptive generalized Dryja--Smith--Widlund (GDSW) overlapping Schwarz method for linear second-order elliptic problems...
By Pablo D. Brubeck and Lloyd N. TrefethenSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1205-A1226, June 2022. Gopal and Trefethen recently introduced “lightning solvers” for the 2D Laplace and Helmholtz equations, based on...
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By Clara Menzen, Manon Kok, and Kim BatselierSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1116-A1144, June 2022. Multiway data often naturally occurs in a tensorial format which can be approximately represented by a...
By Roland Glowinski, Yongcun Song, Xiaoming Yuan, and Hangrui YueSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 392-421, May 2022. We consider the bilinear optimal control of an advection-reaction-diffusion system, where the control arises as the velocity field in...
By Volker H. SchulzSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 503-513, May 2022. We start this section with Andreas Mang's in-depth featured review on the book Introduction to the Tools of Scientific...
By Axel Kittenberger, Leonidas Mindrinos, and Otmar ScherzerSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 469-484, May 2022. In this paper, we provide assembly instructions for an easy-to-build experimental setup in order to gain practical experience with...
By Darinka DentchevaSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 467-467, May 2022. This issue contains two papers in the Education section. The first paper, “Computed Origami Tomography,” is presented by Axel...
By Lijie Mei, Li Huang, and Xinyuan WuSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1092-A1115, June 2022. As one of the most important properties, energy preservation is a natural requirement for numerical integrators...
By Bernardo Gouveia and Howard A. StoneSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 485-499, May 2022. In the study of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) of the form $\hat{L}[y(x)]=f(x)$, where $\hat{L}$ is a linear differential operator,...
By František KardošSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 425-465, May 2022. Fullerene graphs, i.e., 3-connected planar cubic graphs with pentagonal and hexagonal faces, are conjectured to be Hamiltonian. This is...
By Jingwei Liang, Tao Luo, and Carola-Bibiane SchönliebSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1069-A1091, June 2022. The “fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm,” a.k.a. FISTA, is one of the most well known first-order optimization...
By Steven L. Brunton, Marko Budišić, Eurika Kaiser, and J. Nathan KutzSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 229-340, May 2022. The field of dynamical systems is being transformed by the mathematical tools and algorithms emerging from modern computing and...
By Misha E. KilmerSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 341-342, May 2022. This issue features three Research Spotlight articles. The first of these is entitled “Variance and Covariance of Distributions...
By Yuchen He, Sung-Ha Kang, Wenjing Liao, Hao Liu, and Yingjie LiuSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1145-A1175, June 2022. We propose robust methods to identify the underlying Partial Differential Equation (PDE) from a given single...
By The EditorsSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 423-423, May 2022. The SIGEST article in this issue is Hamiltonicity of Cubic Planar Graphs with Bounded Face Sizes, by František Kardoš....
By J. M. Sanz-SernaSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 227-227, May 2022. Steven L. Brunton, Marko Budišić, Eurika Kaiser, and J. Nathan Kutz are the authors of the Survey and Review...
By Alexander Strang, Karen C. Abbott, and Peter J. ThomasSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 360-391, May 2022. Competitive tournaments appear in sports, politics, population ecology, and animal behavior. All of these fields have developed methods...
By Karel Devriendt, Samuel Martin-Gutierrez, and Renaud LambiotteSIAM Review, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 343-359, May 2022. We develop a theory to measure the variance and covariance of probability distributions defined on the nodes of a...
By Hussam Al Daas, Pierre Jolivet, and Jennifer A. ScottSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1047-A1068, June 2022. Solving the normal equations corresponding to large sparse linear least-squares problems is an important and challenging...
By Tao Tang, Boyi Wang, and Jiang YangSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 773-792, June 2022. In this paper, we aim to study the motions of interfaces and coarsening rates governed by...
By Robert Altmann and Roland MaierSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page B457-B478, June 2022. We analyze a semiexplicit time discretization scheme of first order for poroelasticity with nonlinear permeability provided...
By Wenjie Shi and Daniel M. TartakovskySIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page A1021-A1046, June 2022. Generalized polynomial chaos (gPC), often combined with mono-implicit Runge--Kutta (MIRK) methods, is widely used to solve...
By Meng Liu and Jiaqing YangSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page B429-B456, June 2022. This paper is concerned with an inverse problem to recover an impenetrable solid in an unbounded...
By Rodney O. Fox and Frédérique LaurentSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 750-771, April 2022. A tractable solution is proposed to a classical problem in kinetic theory, namely, given any set...
By Qingle Meng, Zhengjian Bai, Huaian Diao, and Hongyu LiuSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 720-749, April 2022. We consider the time-harmonic elastic wave scattering from a general (possibly anisotropic) inhomogeneous medium with an...
By James Dalby, Patrick E. Farrell, Apala Majumdar, and Jingmin XiaSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 694-719, April 2022. We study a model system with nematic and magnetic order, within a channel geometry modeled by...
By David F. Anderson and Kurt W. EhlertSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A993-A1019, April 2022. Reaction networks are often used to model interacting species in fields such as biochemistry and ecology....
By Oscar P. Bruno and Jagabandhu PaulSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A964-A992, April 2022. This paper presents a fast “two-dimensional Fourier continuation” (2D-FC) method for construction of biperiodic extensions of...
By Mark Ainsworth and Shuai JiangSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A901-A934, April 2022. We develop a systematic approach to building uniform preconditioners for the mass matrix on unstructured meshes...
By Hao Liu, Xue-Cheng Tai, and Roland GlowinskiSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A935-A963, April 2022. Gaussian curvature is an important geometric property of surfaces, which has been used broadly in mathematical...
By Alexander Novikov, Maxim Rakhuba, and Ivan OseledetsSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A843-A869, April 2022. In scientific computing and machine learning applications, matrices and more general multidimensional arrays (tensors) can often...
By Michael Vynnycky and Sean McKeeSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 677-693, April 2022. We revisit the analysis of a transient nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation describing two-particle coalescence or, alternatively, annihilation...
By Qiaohua Liu, Sitao Ling, and Zhigang JiaSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A870-A900, April 2022. This paper presents a randomized quaternion singular value decomposition (QSVD) algorithm for low-rank matrix...
By Shanshan Chen, Junping Shi, Zhisheng Shuai, and Yixiang WuSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 654-676, April 2022. Threshold values in population dynamics can be formulated as spectral bounds of matrices, determining the dichotomy...
By Ru-Yu Lai, Kui Ren, and Ting ZhouSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 602-624, April 2022. Motivated by applications in imaging nonlinear optical absorption by photoacoustic tomography, we study in this work...
By Toby L. Kirk, Jack Evans, Colin P. Please, and S. Jonathan ChapmanSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 625-653, April 2022. In mathematical models of lithium-ion batteries, the highly heterogeneous porous electrodes are frequently approximated as comprising...
By Yu-hsuan Shih, Georg Stadler, and Florian WechsungSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Ahead of Print. We present augmented Lagrangian Schur complement preconditioners and robust multigrid methods for incompressible Stokes problems with extreme viscosity variations. Such Stokes...
By Milinda Fernando and Hari SundarSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page C156-C183, April 2022. Numerical solutions of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Method of...
By Ahmed Attia, Sven Leyffer, and Todd S. MunsonSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B395-B427, April 2022. We present a novel stochastic approach to binary optimization suited for optimal experimental design (OED) for...
By Erik Jansson, Mihály Kovács, and Annika LangSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A825-A842, April 2022. Spherical Whittle--Matérn Gaussian random fields are considered as solutions to fractional elliptic stochastic partial differential equations...
By Ernesto G. Birgin, Antoine Laurain, Rafael Massambone, and Arthur G. SantanaSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A798-A824, April 2022. The problem of covering a region of the plane with a fixed number of minimum-radius identical...
By Nils Kohl and Ulrich RüdeSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page C124-C155, April 2022. We employ textbook multigrid efficiency (TME), as introduced by Achi Brandt, to construct an asymptotically optimal...
By Shuang Liu, Yuan Lou, and Pengfei SongSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 576-601, April 2022. A new monotonocity of principal eigenvalues in time-periodic patch environments is established. As an application,...
By Sebastiano Boscarino, Jingmei Qiu, Giovanni Russo, and Tao XiongSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B368-B394, April 2022. In this paper, we propose a new high order semi-implicit scheme for the all-Mach full...
By Juntao Huang, Yong Liu, Yuan Liu, Zhanjing Tao, and Yingda ChengSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A745-A769, April 2022. In this paper, we propose a class of adaptive multiresolution (also called the adaptive sparse grid)...
By Bert Mortier, Martine Baelmans, and Giovanni SamaeySIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A720-A744, April 2022. We develop a novel Monte Carlo strategy for the simulation of the Boltzmann-BGK model with both...
By Maciej Buze, Thoms E. Woolley, and Angela MihaiSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 526-548, April 2022. We present a stochastic modeling framework for atomistic propagation of a Mode I surface crack, with...
By Min TaoSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A770-A797, April 2022. The ratio of the $L_1$ and $L_2$ norms, denoted by $L_1/L_2$, becomes attractive due to its...
By Michal Beneš, Miroslav Kolář, and Daniel ŠevčovičSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 549-575, April 2022. In this article we investigate a system of geometric evolution equations describing a curvature driven motion...
By Alexander Heinlein, Mauro Perego, and Sivasankaran RajamanickamSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B339-B367, April 2022. Numerical simulations of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets involve the solution of large-scale highly nonlinear systems...
By Alessandro Ciallella, Emilio N. M. Cirillo, and Barbara VantaggiSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 502-525, April 2022. We show that residence time measures can be used to identify the geometrical and transmission properties...
By Philippe Marchner, Xavier Antoine, Christophe Geuzaine, and Hadrien BériotSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 476-501, April 2022. This article is devoted to the derivation and assessment of local absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs) for...
By Mats K. Brun, Elyes Ahmed, Jan M. Nordbotten, and Nils ChrStensethSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 450-475, April 2022. This paper concerns the modeling and numerical simulation of the process of speciation. In particular, given...
By Yuan Gao and Jian-Guo LiuSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B310-B338, April 2022. The geometric motion of small droplets placed on an impermeable textured substrate is mainly driven by...
By Virginie Ehrlacher, Maria Fuente Ruiz, and Damiano LombardiSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A664-A688, April 2022. In the present work, a method is proposed in order to compute an approximation of a...
By Wei Wang and Zhimin ZhangSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A689-A719, April 2022. The spectral element method performs very well in solving PDE eigenvalue problems for some cases. In...
By Zhenning Cai and Yanli WangSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B275-B309, April 2022. We solve the Boltzmann equation, whose collision term is modeled by the hybridization of the binary...
By J. Dardé, N. Hyvönen, T. Kuutela, and T. ValkonenSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 427-449, April 2022. Electrical impedance tomography is an imaging modality for extracting information on the interior structure of a...
By Ketson R. dos Santos, Dimitrios G. Giovanis, and Michael D. ShieldsSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B250-B274, April 2022. This work introduces the Grassmannian diffusion maps (GDMaps), a novel nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique that defines...
By Ben S. Southworth, Oliver Krzysik, and Will PaznerSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A636-A663, April 2022. Fully implicit Runge--Kutta (IRK) methods have many desirable accuracy and stability properties as time integration schemes,...
By Sebastian Acosta, Gunther Uhlmann, and Jian ZhaiSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 408-426, April 2022. We consider the ultrasound imaging problem governed by a nonlinear wave equation of Westervelt type with...
By Tugba Torun, F. Sukru Torun, Murat Manguoglu, and Cevdet AykanatSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page C99-C123, April 2022. Gauss--Seidel (GS) is a widely used iterative method for solving sparse linear systems of equations and...
By A. Liu and F. M. G. MagpantaySIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 82, Issue 2, Page 381-407, April 2022. The stability of equilibria and asymptotic behaviors of trajectories are often the primary focuses of mathematical...
By Ngoc Mai Monica Huynh, Luca F. Pavarino, and Simone ScacchiSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B224-B249, April 2022. Two novel parallel Newton--Krylov balancing domain decomposition by constraints (BDDC) and dual-primal finite element tearing and...
By Steffen Börm, Sven Christophersen, and Ronald KriemannSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page C77-C98, April 2022. A new method to construct task graphs for $\mathcal{H}$-matrix arithmetic is introduced, which uses the information...
By Qing Lu, Junxian Wang, Shi Shu, and Jie PengSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page A605-A635, April 2022. The research of the two-level overlapping Schwarz (TL-OS) methods based on constrained energy minimizing coarse space...
By David Gasperini, Hans-Peter Biese, Udo Schroeder, Xavier Antoine, and Christophe GeuzaineSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page B197-B223, April 2022. A finite element method in the frequency domain is proposed for solving scattering problems with moving...
By Peter Bastian, Robert Scheichl, Linus Seelinger, and Arne StrehlowSIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Ahead of Print. Highly heterogeneous, anisotropic coefficients, e.g., in the simulation of carbon-Fiber composite components, can lead to extremely challenging finite element systems. Direct...
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