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When dealing with shallow water simulations, the velocity profile is often assumed to be constant along the vertical axis. However, since in many applications this is not the case, modeling errors can be significant. Hence, in this work, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-15 C. Caballero-Cárdenas , I. Gómez-Bueno , A. del Grosso , J. Koellermeier , T. Morales de Luna

The acoustic scattering problem is modeled by the exterior Helmholtz equation, which is challenging to solve due to both the unboundedness of the domain and the high dispersion error, known as the pollution effect. We develop high-order…

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Perfect fluid spheres, both Newtonian and relativistic, have attracted considerable attention as the first step in developing realistic stellar models (or models for fluid planets). Whereas there have been some early hints on how one might…

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Methods to solve the relativistic hydrodynamic equations are a key computational kernel in a large number of astrophysics simulations and are crucial to understanding the electromagnetic signals that originate from the merger of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Jackson DeBuhr , Bo Zhang , Matthew Anderson , David Neilsen , Eric W. Hirschmann

The Lagrange multiplier method has proven highly effective for mitigating the ill-conditioning of full waveform inversion (FWI), enabling robust and computationally efficient algorithms that converge to accurate velocity models even from…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Ali Gholami , Kamal Aghazade , Akshay Vishwakarma

In this paper, a novel pre- and post-processing algorithm is presented that can double the convergence rate of finite element approximations for linear wave problems. In particular, it is shown that a $q$-step pre- and post-processing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Sjoerd Geevers

When considering an effective i.e. homogenized description of waves in periodic media that transcends the usual quasi-static approximation, there are generally two schools of thought: (i) the two-scale approach that is prevalent in…

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We discuss the design of state-of-the-art numerical methods for molecular dynamics, focusing on the demands of soft matter simulation, where the purposes include sampling and dynamics calculations both in and out of equilibrium. We discuss…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Martin Kröger , Benedict Leimkuhler

We analyze the propagation of an incident electromagnetic wave in a purely-time modulated medium. Precisely, we assume that the permeability is unchanged while the permittivity has a multiple-step profile in time and uniformly constant in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Mourad Sini , Haibing Wang , Qingyun Yao

This paper develops a strong computational approach to simulate a three-dimensional nonlinear radiation-conduction model in optically thick media, subject to suitable initial and boundary conditions. The space derivatives are approximated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Eric Ngondiep

This paper proposes a new method, in the frequency domain, to define absorbing boundary conditions for general two-dimensional problems. The main feature of the method is that it can obtain boundary conditions from the discretized equations…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Denis Duhamel , Tien-Minh Nguyen

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa

A new construction of an absorbing boundary condition for indefinite Helmholtz problems on unbounded domains is presented. This construction is based on a near-best uniform rational interpolant of the inverse square root function on the…

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We present a new stabilised and efficient high-order nodal spectral element method based on the Mixed Eulerian Lagrangian (MEL) method for general-purpose simulation of fully nonlinear water waves and wave-body interactions. In this MEL…

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Particle learning (PL) provides state filtering, sequential parameter learning and smoothing in a general class of state space models. Our approach extends existing particle methods by incorporating the estimation of static parameters via a…

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We introduce an alternative to the method of matched asymptotic expansions. In the "traditional" implementation, approximate solutions, valid in different (but overlapping) regions are matched by using "intermediate" variables. Here we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-23 Luiz M. Faria , Rodolfo R. Rosales

Exact space-time propagator for the wave (second-order in time) equation in a layered system, made up of a layer sandwiched between two other different semi-infinite layers, is obtained by means of the multiple scattering theory (MST)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Victor F. Los , Nicholas V. Los

A variety of models for the membrane-mediated interaction of particles in lipid membranes, mostly well-established in theoretical physics, is reviewed from a mathematical perspective. We provide mathematically consistent formulations in a…

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The perfectly matched layers (PML) and exterior complex scaling (ECS) methods for absorbing boundary conditions are analyzed using spectral decomposition. Both methods are derived through analytical continuations from unitary to contractive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Scrinzi , H. P. Stimming , N. J . Mauser