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We develop a multigrid solver for the second biharmonic problem in the context of Isogeometric Analysis (IgA), where we also allow a zero-order term. In a previous paper, the authors have developed an analysis for the first biharmonic problem based on Hackbusch's framework. This analysis can only be extended to the second biharmonic problem if one assumes uniform grids. In this paper, we prove a multigrid convergence estimate using Bramble's framework for multigrid analysis without regularity assumptions. We show that the bound for the convergence rate is independent of the scaling of the zero-order term and the spline degree. It only depends linearly on the number of levels, thus logarithmically on the grid size. Numerical experiments are provided which illustrate the convergence theory and the efficiency of the proposed multigrid approaches.

We are interested in a fast solver for the Stokes equations, discretized with multi-patch Isogeometric Analysis. In the last years, several inf-sup stable discretizations for the Stokes problem have been proposed, often the analysis was restricted to single-patch domains. We focus on one of the simplest approaches, the isogeometric Taylor--Hood element. We show how stability results for single-patch domains can be carried over to multi-patch domains. While this is possible, the stability strongly depends on the shape of the geometry. We construct a Dual-Primal Isogeometric Tearing and Interconnecting (IETI-DP) solver that does not suffer from that effect. We give a convergence analysis and provide numerical tests.

We are interested in a fast solver for linear systems obtained by discretizing the Stokes problem with multi-patch Isogeometric Analysis. We use Dual-Primal Isogeometric Tearing and Interconnecting (IETI-DP) methods. In resent years, IETI-DPand related methods have been studied extensively, mainly for the Poisson problem. For the Stokes equations, several challenges arise since the corresponding system is not positive definite, but has saddle point structure. Moreover, the Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions have a null-space, consisting of the constant pressure modes. This poses a challenge when considering the scaled Dirichlet preconditioner. We test out two different scaled Dirichlet preconditioners with different choices of primal degrees of freedom. The tests are performed on rather simple domains (the unit square and a quarter annulus) and a more complicated domain (a Yeti-footprint).

This paper is concerned with robust preconditioning of wave equations constrained linear inverse problems from boundary observation data. The main result of this paper is a concept for regularization parameter robust preconditioning. Analogous concepts have been developed for control problems based on elliptic partial equations before.