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This paper investigates an adaptive wavelet collocation time domain method for the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations. In this method a computational grid is dynamically adapted at each time step by using the wavelet decomposition of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Haojun Li , Kirankumar R. Hiremath , Andreas Rieder , Wolfgang Freude

We study an inverse problem for the viscoacoustic wave equation, an integro-differential model describing wave propagation in viscoacoustic media with memory in the leading order term. The medium is characterized by a spatially varying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Giovanni Covi , Maarten de Hoop , Mikko Salo

In many applications, and in particular in seismology, realistic propagation media disperse and attenuate waves. This dissipative behavior can be taken into account by using a viscoacoustic propagation model, which incorporates a complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jean-Philippe Groby , Chrysoula Tsogka

We study the Blackstock equation which models the propagation of nonlinear sound waves through dissipative fluids. Global well-posedness of the model with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions is shown for small initial data. To this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Marvin Fritz , Vanja Nikolić , Barbara Wohlmuth

A numerical method is proposed for computing time-periodic and relative time-periodic solutions in dissipative wave systems. In such solutions, the temporal period, and possibly other additional internal parameters such as the propagation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-08-28 Jianke Yang

A numerical method of solving the problem of acoustic wave radiation in the presence of a rigid scatterer is described. It combines the finite element method and the boundary algebraic equations. In the proposed method, the exterior domain…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-18 J. Poblet-Puig , A. V. Shanin

We consider an inverse problem for a Westervelt type nonlinear wave equation with fractional damping. This equation arises in nonlinear acoustic imaging, and we show the forward problem is locally well-posed. We prove that the smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Li Li , Yang Zhang

We consider an inverse problem governed by the Westervelt equation with linear diffusivity and quadratic-type nonlinearity. The objective of this problem is to recover all the coefficients of this nonlinear partial differential equation. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sebastian Acosta , Benjamin Palacios

A time-domain numerical code based on the constitutive relations of nonlinear acoustics for simulating ultrasound propagation is presented. To model frequency power law attenuation, such as observed in biological media, multiple relaxation…

A boundary integral formulation for the solution of the Helmholtz equation is developed in which all traditional singular behaviour in the boundary integrals is removed analytically. The numerical precision of this approach is illustrated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Q. Sun , E. Klaseboer , B. C. Khoo , D. Y. C. Chan

We investigate an initial-boundary value problem for the quasilinear Westervelt equation which models the propagation of sound in fluidic media. We prove that, if the initial data are sufficiently small and regular, then there exists a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-23 Stefan Meyer , Mathias Wilke

We describe and evaluate a numerical solution strategy for simulating surface acoustic waves through semiconductor devices with complex geometries. This multi-physics problem is of particular relevance to the design of quantum electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rahman , H. P. Langtangen , C. H. W. Barnes

We present a high-order spacetime numerical method for discretizing and solving linear initial-boundary value problems using wavelet-based techniques with user-prescribed error estimates. The spacetime wavelet discretization yields a system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Cody D. Cochran , Karel Matous

For given computational resources, the accuracy of plasma simulations using particles is mainly held back by the noise due to limited statistical sampling in the reconstruction of the particle distribution function. A method based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 Romain Nguyen van yen , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Kai Schneider , Marie Farge , Guangye Chen

Multiscale and multiphysics problems need novel numerical methods in order for them to be solved correctly and predictively. To that end, we develop a wavelet based technique to solve a coupled system of nonlinear partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Cale Harnish , Luke Dalessandro , Karel Matous , Daniel Livescu

Nonlinear ultrasound imaging leverages harmonic wave generation to enhance contrast and spatial resolution beyond the capabilities of conventional linear techniques. This behavior is commonly modeled by the Westervelt equation, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Benjamin Rainer , Barbara Kaltenbacher

The problem of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds can be considered to be one of the most general problem formulations encountered in computational multi-physics. The required covariant forms of balance laws as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Robert L. Gates , Maximilian Bittens

Accurately calculating time delays between signals is pivotal in many modern physics applications. One approach to estimating these delays is computing the cross-spectrum in the time-frequency domain. Linear time-frequency representations,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 L. de A. Gurgel , J. M. de Araújo , L. D. Machado , P. D. S. de Lima

The Wigner-Smith (WS) time delay matrix relates an acoustic system's scattering matrix to its wavenumber derivative. The entries of the WS time delay matrix can be expressed in terms of energy density-like volume integrals, which cannot be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Utkarsh R. Patel , Yiqian Mao , Jack Hamel , Eric Michielssen

Solving the wave equation is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental problems we face as we try to illuminate the Earth using recorded seismic data. The Helmholtz equation provides wavefield solutions that are dimensionally reduced,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Umair bin Waheed , Qi Hao