English

On the indefinite Helmholtz equation: complex stretched absorbing boundary layers, iterative analysis, and preconditioning

Numerical Analysis 2010-08-19 v2

Abstract

This paper studies and analyzes a preconditioned Krylov solver for Helmholtz problems that are formulated with absorbing boundary layers based on complex coordinate stretching. The preconditioner problem is a Helmholtz problem where not only the coordinates in the absorbing layer have an imaginary part, but also the coordinates in the interior region. This results into a preconditioner problem that is invertible with a multigrid cycle. We give a numerical analysis based on the eigenvalues and evaluate the performance with several numerical experiments. The method is an alternative to the complex shifted Laplacian and it gives a comparable performance for the studied model problems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0912.0180,
  title  = {On the indefinite Helmholtz equation: complex stretched absorbing boundary layers, iterative analysis, and preconditioning},
  author = {Bram Reps and Wim Vanroose and Hisham bin Zubair},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.0180},
  year   = {2010}
}
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