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Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

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,…

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We consider sweeping domain decomposition preconditioners to solve the Helmholtz equation in the case of stripwise domain decomposition with or without overlaps. We unify their derivation and convergence studies by expressing them as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Nacime Bouziani , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

Superpositions of plane waves are known to approximate well the solutions of the Helmholtz equation. Their use in discretizations is typical of Trefftz methods for Helmholtz problems, aiming to achieve high accuracy with a small number of…

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Due to its highly oscillating solution, the Helmholtz equation is numerically challenging to solve. To obtain a reasonable solution, a mesh size that is much smaller than the reciprocal of the wavenumber is typically required (known as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michelle Michelle

We consider the 2D quasi-periodic scattering problem in optics, which has been modelled by a boundary value problem governed by Helmholtz equation with transparent boundary conditions. A spectral collocation method and a tensor product…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Kui Du

The modified biharmonic equation is encountered in a variety of application areas, including streamfunction formulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. We develop a separation of variables representation for this equation in polar…

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Linear systems with a tensor product structure arise naturally when considering the discretization of Laplace type differential equations or, more generally, multidimensional operators with separable coefficients. In this work, we focus on…

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Mode conversion in non-homogeneous elastic media makes it challenging to interpret physical properties accurately. Decomposing these modes correctly is crucial across various scientific areas. Recent machine learning approaches have been…

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We develop a new dispersion minimizing compact finite difference scheme for the Helmholtz equation in 2 and 3 dimensions. The scheme is based on a newly developed ray theory for difference equations. A discrete Helmholtz operator and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Christiaan C. Stolk

We study numerically the dispersion and dissipation properties of the plane wave virtual element method and the nonconforming Trefftz virtual element method for the Helmholtz problem. Whereas the former method is based on a conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Ilaria Perugia , Alexander Pichler

This paper presents a scalable multigrid preconditioner targeting large-scale systems arising from discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations of high-frequency wave operators. This work is built on previously developed multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Jacob Badger , Stefan Henneking , Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

We show that the properties of the lower part of the spectrum of the Helmholtz equation for an heterogeneous system in a finite region in $d$ dimensions, where the solutions to the homogeneous problems are known, can be systematically…

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We consider the numerical solution of high-frequency scattering problems modeled by the Helmholtz equation with a bounded obstacle. Although the analysis of this problem dates back at least 50 years, over the past decade or so, tools and…

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We present a convergent and scalable multigrid solver for high-frequency Helmholtz equations. Standard multigrid methods do not converge for high-frequency Helmholtz problems, and a common cure is adding a complex shift and using the…

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Variational quantum algorithms are one of the most promising methods that can be implemented on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) machines to achieve a quantum advantage over classical computers. This article describes the use of a…

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Wavelet theory has been well studied in recent decades. Due to their appealing features such as sparse multiscale representation and fast algorithms, wavelets have enjoyed many tremendous successes in the areas of signal/image processing…

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This paper introduces tensorial calculus techniques in the framework of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) to reduce the computational complexity of the reduced nonlinear terms. The resulting method, named tensorial POD, can be applied…

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In this article, discrete variants of several results from vector calculus are studied for classical finite difference summation by parts operators in two and three space dimensions. It is shown that existence theorems for scalar/vector…

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