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The Helmholtz equation is a prototypical model for time-harmonic wave propagation. Numerical solutions become increasingly challenging as the wave number $k$ grows, due to the equation's elliptic yet noncoercive character and the highly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Anjiao Gu , Shi Jin , Chuwen Ma

In this paper we are concerned with fast algorithms for the systems arising from the plane wave discretizations for two-dimensional Helmholtz equations with large wave numbers. We consider the plane wave weighted least squares (PWLS) method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Qiya Hu , Xuan Li

The oscillatory waves require sufficient degrees of freedom to resolve. That restriction usually applies also to coarse problems for Schwarz methods. The resulting coarse problem is then too large. To address the issue, a new form of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Martin J. Gander , Yao-Lin Jiang , Hui Zhang

We lift the constraint of a diagonal representation of the Hamiltonian by searching for square integrable bases that support an infinite tridiagonal matrix representation of the wave operator. The class of solutions obtained as such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Alhaidari

The Schr\"odinger equation defines the dynamics of quantum particles which has been an area of unabated interest in physics. We demonstrate how simple transformations of the Schr\"odinger equation leads to a coupled linear system, whereby…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Hisham bin Zubair , Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose

We propose an optimally performant fully implicit algorithm for the Hall magnetohydrodynamics (HMHD) equations based on multigrid-preconditioned Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov methods. HMHD is a challenging system to solve numerically because…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Luis Chacon

Three new iteration methods, namely the squared-operator method, the modified squared-operator method, and the power-conserving squared-operator method, for solitary waves in general scalar and vector nonlinear wave equations are proposed.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianke Yang , Taras Lakoba

In this paper we extend analysis of the WaveHoltz iteration -- a time-domain iterative method for the solution of the Helmholtz equation. We expand the previous analysis of energy conserving problems and prove convergence of the WaveHoltz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Fortino Garcia , Daniel Appelö , Olof Runborg

Global monochromatic solutions of the scalar wave equation are obtained in flat wormholes of dimensions 2+1 and 3+1. The solutions are in the form of infinite series involving cylindirical and spherical wave functions and they are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Necmi Bugdayci

In this work, we propose and analyze two two-level hybrid Schwarz preconditioners for solving the Helmholtz equation with high wave number in two and three dimensions. Both preconditioners are defined over a set of overlapping subdomains,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Peipei Lu , Xuejun Xu , Bowen Zheng , Jun Zou

In this paper we construct and analyse a level-dependent coarsegrid correction scheme for indefinite Helmholtz problems. This adapted multigrid method is capable of solving the Helmholtz equation on the finest grid using a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-09 Siegfried Cools , Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose

We present a new method for the analysis of smoothly varying tapers, transitions and filters in rectangular waveguides. With this aim, we apply a Hierarchical Model (HiMod) reduction to the vector Helmholtz equation. We exploit a suitable…

This paper introduces a novel geometric multigrid solver for unstructured curved surfaces. Multigrid methods are highly efficient iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. Despite the success in solving problems defined on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Jiayi Eris Zhang , Mirela Ben-Chen , Alec Jacobson

We prove a completeness result for a class of polynomial solutions of the wave equation called wave polynomials and construct generalized wave polynomials, solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation with a variable coefficient. Using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Kira V. Khmelnytskaya , Vladislav V. Kravchenko , Sergii M. Torba , Sébastien Tremblay

Standard solvers for the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation in two spatial dimensions have running times which grow quadratically with the wavenumber $k$. Here, we describe a solver which applies only when the scattering potential is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 James Bremer

Multi-scale wave propagation problems are computationally costly to solve by traditional techniques because the smallest scales must be represented over a domain determined by the largest scales of the problem. We have developed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-16 Bjorn Engquist , Henrik Holst , Olof Runborg

This paper analyzes the Krylov convergence rate of a Helmholtz problem preconditioned with Multigrid. The multigrid method is applied to the Helmholtz problem formulated on a complex contour and uses GMRES as a smoother substitute at each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Bram Reps , Wim Vanroose

The Helmholtz equation is fundamental to wave modeling in acoustics, electromagnetics, and seismic imaging, yet high-frequency regimes remain challenging due to the ``pollution effect''. We propose FD-MGDL, an adaptive framework integrating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Peiyao Zhao , Rui Wang , Tingting Wu , Yuesheng Xu

It is shown how various ideas that are well established for the solution of Poisson's equation using plane wave and multigrid methods can be combined with wavelet concepts. The combination of wavelet concepts and multigrid techniques turns…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Goedecker

The geometric multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer grid scales, resulting in faster convergence compared…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Francisco Holguin , GS Sidharth , Gavin Portwood