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The purpose of this research is to describe an efficient iterative method suitable for obtaining high accuracy solutions to high frequency time-harmonic scattering problems. The method allows for both refinement of local polynomial degree…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ryan Galagusz , Steve McFee

Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems by iterative methods is a difficult task, and over the last two decades, an important research effort has gone into developing preconditioners for the simplest representative of such wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Martin J. Gander , Hui Zhang

We present a solver for the 2D high-frequency Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous acoustic media, with online parallel complexity that scales optimally as $\mathcal{O}(\frac{N}{L})$, where $N$ is the number of volume unknowns, and $L$ is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Laurent Demanet

The Helmholtz equation is notoriously difficult to solve with standard numerical methods, increasingly so, in fact, at higher frequencies. Controllability methods instead transform the problem back to the time-domain, where they seek the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Marcus J. Grote , Frédéric Nataf , Jet Hoe Tang , Pierre-Henri Tournier

This paper proposes a frequency/time hybrid integral-equation method for the time dependent wave equation in two and three-dimensional spatial domains. Relying on Fourier Transformation in time, the method utilizes a fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Thomas G. Anderson , Oscar P. Bruno , Mark Lyon

We discuss parallel (additive) and sequential (multiplicative) variants of overlapping Schwarz methods for the Helmholtz equation in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with large real wavenumber and smooth variable wave speed. The radiation condition is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Jeffrey Galkowski , Shihua Gong , Ivan G. Graham , David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence

In this paper, a fast multipole method (FMM) is proposed to compute long-range interactions of wave sources embedded in 3-D layered media. The layered media Green's function for the Helmholtz equation, which satisfies the transmission…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Bo Wang , Wenzhong Zhang , Wei Cai

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems in the frequency domain within heterogeneous media poses significant mathematical and computational challenges, particularly in the high-frequency regime. Among the available numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Victorita Dolean , Mark Fry , Matthias Langer , Emile Parolin , Pierre-Henri Tournier

A domain decomposition method for the solution of general variable-coefficient elliptic partial differential equations on regular domains is introduced. The method is based on tessellating the domain into overlapping thin slabs or shells,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Simon Dirckx , Anna Yesypenko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We propose a hybrid approach to solve the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with point source terms in smooth heterogeneous media. The method is based on the ray-based finite element method (ray-FEM), whose original version can not handle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Jun Fang , Jianliang Qian , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Hongkai Zhao

The fast multipole method (FMM) has had great success in reducing the computational complexity of solving the boundary integral form of the Helmholtz equation. We present a formulation of the Helmholtz FMM that uses Fourier basis functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Cris Cecka , Eric Darve

The paper introduces the sweeping preconditioner, which is highly efficient for iterative solutions of the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation including very high frequency problems. The first central idea of this novel approach is to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-04 Björn Engquist , Lexing Ying

This paper introduces a directional multiscale algorithm for the two dimensional $N$-body problem of the Helmholtz kernel with applications to high frequency scattering. The algorithm follows the approach in [Engquist and Ying, SIAM Journal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-02-29 Björn Engquist , Lexing Ying

We develop efficient and high-order accurate solvers for the Helmholtz equation on complex geometry. The schemes are based on the WaveHoltz algorithm which computes solutions of the Helmholtz equation by time-filtering solutions of the wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Daniel Appelo , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Donald W. Schwendeman

A discretization scheme for variable coefficient Helmholtz problems on two-dimensional domains is presented. The scheme is based on high-order spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The resulting system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-20 P. G. Martinsson

We use the Method of Difference Potentials (MDP) to solve a non-overlapping domain decomposition formulation of the Helmholtz equation. The MDP reduces the Helmholtz equation on each subdomain to a Calderon's boundary equation with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Evan North , Semyon Tsynkov , Eli Turkel

We propose a novel variant of the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) method for time-harmonic scattering problems of Helmholtz type with high wavenumber $\kappa$. On a coarse mesh of width $H$, the proposed method identifies local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Philip Freese , Moritz Hauck , Daniel Peterseim

The modified Born series (MBS) is a fast and accurate method for simulating wave propagation in complex structures. In the current implementation of the MBS, the simulation size is limited by the working memory of a single computer or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Swapnil Mache , Ivo M. Vellekoop

This paper presents a fast iterative solver for Lippmann-Schwinger equation for high-frequency waves scattered by a smooth medium with a compactly supported inhomogeneity. The solver is based on the sparsifying preconditioner and a domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Hongkai Zhao