{"paper":{"title":"Block Preconditioning for Shifted Boundary Method Discretisations of the Stokes Problem","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.NA"],"primary_cat":"math.NA","authors_text":"Ajay Ajith, Micha{\\l} Wichrowski","submitted_at":"2026-07-02T15:39:14Z","abstract_excerpt":"The Shifted Boundary Method (SBM) sidesteps body-fitted meshing by shifting boundary conditions onto a surrogate boundary and correcting for the displacement through Taylor expansions. Despite its broad analysis and application, scalable iterative solvers for the incompressible Stokes equations remain underdeveloped. We present a block preconditioner for SBM--Stokes discretisations that uses the velocity block together with a pressure mass matrix as a Schur complement approximation. Because the SBM system is non-symmetric, classical operator preconditioning does not apply directly; a field-of-"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2607.02336","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2607.02336/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}