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We develop a numerical method for the Westervelt equation, an important equation in nonlinear acoustics, in the form where the attenuation is represented by a class of non-local in time operators. A semi-discretisation in time based on the…
Westervelt's equation is a nonlinear wave equation that is widely used to model the propagation of sound waves in a compressible medium, with one important application being ultra-sound in human tissue. Two fundamental aspects of this…
In approximating solutions of nonstationary problems, various approaches are used to compute the solution at a new time level from a number of simpler (sub-)problems. Among these approaches are splitting methods. Standard splitting schemes…
The Westervelt equation is a model for the propagation of finite amplitude ultrasound. The method of discrete exterior calculus can be used to solve this equation numerically. A significant advantage of this method is that it can be used to…
In this paper we show local (and partially global) in time existence for the Westervelt equation with several versions of nonlinear damping. This enables us to prove well-posedness with spatially varying $L_\infty$-coefficients, which…
We propose a high-order discontinuous Galerkin scheme for nonlinear acoustic waves on polytopic meshes. To model sound propagation with and without losses, we use Westervelt's nonlinear wave equation with and without strong damping.…
Accurate simulation of nonlinear acoustic waves is essential for the continued development of a wide range of (high-intensity) focused ultrasound applications. This article explores mixed finite element formulations of classical strongly…
We assess the applicability and efficiency of time-adaptive high-order splitting methods applied for the numerical solution of (systems of) nonlinear parabolic problems under periodic boundary conditions. We discuss in particular several…
This paper addresses the numerical solution of the Westervelt equation, which arises as one of the model equations in nonlinear acoustics. The problem is rewritten in a canonical form that allows the systematic discretization by Galerkin…
This paper introduces an adaptive time splitting technique for the solution of stiff evolutionary PDEs that guarantees an effective error control of the simulation, independent of the fastest physical time scale for highly unsteady…
We consider an undetermined coefficient inverse problem for a nonlinear partial differential equation describing high intensity ultrasound propagation as widely used in medical imaging and therapy. The usual nonlinear term in the standard…
We consider the application of the WaveHoltz iteration to time-harmonic elastic wave equations with energy conserving boundary conditions. The original WaveHoltz iteration for acoustic Helmholtz problems is a fixed-point iteration that…
This contribution is dedicated to the exploration of exponential operator splitting methods for the time integration of evolution equations. It entails the review of previous achievements as well as the depiction of novel results. The…
Operator-splitting methods are widely used to solve differential equations, especially those that arise from multi-scale or multi-physics models, because a monolithic (single-method) approach may be inefficient or even infeasible. The most…
We investigate Lie-Trotter product formulae for abstract nonlinear evolution equations with delay. Using results from the theory of nonlinear contraction semigroups in Hilbert spaces, we explain the convergence of the splitting procedure.…
Splitting methods are widely used for solving initial value problems (IVPs) due to their ability to simplify complicated evolutions into more manageable subproblems which can be solved efficiently and accurately. Traditionally, these…
This paper proposes and analyzes a new operator splitting method for stochastic Maxwell equations driven by additive noise, which not only decomposes the original multi-dimensional system into some local one-dimensional subsystems, but also…
By using the pseudo-metric introduced in [F. Golse, T. Paul: Archive for Rational Mech. Anal. 223 (2017) 57-94], which is an analogue of the Wasserstein distance of exponent $2$ between a quantum density operator and a classical…
The present work provides a comprehensive study of symmetric-conjugate operator splitting methods in the context of linear parabolic problems and demonstrates their additional benefits compared to symmetric splitting methods. Relevant…
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…