SAYAS NUMERICS SEMINAR     Register to attend talk
Feb. 16, 2021 at 3:30pm (Eastern Time)

Parallel preconditioning for time-dependent PDEs and PDE control

Andy Wathen
University of Oxford, UK

We present a novel approach to the solution of time-dependent PDEs via the so-called monolithic or all-at-once formulation. This approach will be explained for simple parabolic problems and its utility in the context of PDE constrained optimization problems will be elucidated.

The underlying linear algebra includes circulant matrix approximations of Toeplitz-structured matrices and allows for effective parallel implementation. Simple computational results will be shown for the heat equation and the wave equation which indicate the potential as a parallel-in-time method.