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Multiscale problems are computationally costly to solve by direct simulation because the smallest scales must be represented over a domain determined by the largest scales of the problem. We have developed and analyzed new numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Björn Engquist , Henrik Holst , Olof Runborg

We present a variant of the solver in Zepeda-N\'u\~nez and Demanet (2014), for the 2D high-frequency Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous acoustic media. By changing the domain decomposition from a layered to a grid-like partition, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Laurent Demanet

We shall derive and propose several efficient overlapping domain decomposition methods for solving some typical linear inverse problems, including the identiffication of the flux, the source strength and the initial temperature in second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Jiang Daijun , Feng Hui , Zou Jun

Efficient numerical solution of the acoustic Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media remains challenging, particularly for large-scale problems with spatially-varying density - a limitation that restricts applications in biomedical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Antonio Stanziola , Simon R. Arridge , Bradley E. Treeby , Benjamin T. Cox

The Helmholtz equation in one dimension, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves in effectively one-dimensional systems, is equivalent to the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The fact that the potential term…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

Propagation of high-frequency wave in periodic media is a challenging problem due to the existence of multiscale characterized by short wavelength, small lattice constant and large physical domain size. Conventional computational methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Ricardo Delgadillo , Jianfeng Lu , Xu Yang

Solving large-scale Helmholtz problems discretized with high-order finite elements is notoriously difficult, especially in 3D where direct factorization of the system matrix is very expensive and memory demanding, and robust convergence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Boris Martin , Pierre Jolivet , Christophe Geuzaine

Time-harmonic solutions to the wave equation can be computed in the frequency or in the time domain. In the frequency domain, one solves a discretized Helmholtz equation, while in the time domain, the periodic solutions to a discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Christiaan C. Stolk

In this work we present a variant of the fast multipole method (FMM) for efficiently evaluating standard layer potentials on geometries with complex coordinates in two and three dimensions. The complex scaled boundary integral method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Tristan Goodwill , Leslie Greengard , Jeremy Hoskins , Manas Rachh , Yuguan Wang

This paper introduces a novel, robust, and computationally efficient framework for high-quality quadrilateral mesh generation on general two-dimensional domains. The core of the proposed approach is a novel method for computing cross fields…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jingwen Dai , Zhonghua Qiao , Dong Wang

The construction of fast iterative solvers for the indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell's system at mid- to high-frequency is a problem of great current interest. Some of the difficulties that arise are similar to those encountered in the case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Marcella Bonazzoli , Victorita Dolean , Ivan Graham , Euan Spence , Pierre-Henri Tournier

In this paper we analyse the Waveholtz method, a time-domain iterative method for solving the Helmholtz iteration, in the constant-coefficient case in all of $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that the difference between a Waveholtz iterate and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Olof Runborg , Elliot Backman

The recent results presented in arXiv:2202.05608 have led to significant developments in achieving stable approximations of Helmholtz solutions by plane wave superposition. The study shows that the numerical instability and ill-conditioning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Nicola Galante

This paper introduces a hybrid computational framework for the multi-frequency inverse source problem governed by the Helmholtz equation. By integrating a classical Fourier method with a deep convolutional neural network, we address the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Hao Chen , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Yuliang Wang

This paper proposes a frequency-time hybrid solver for the time-dependent wave equation in two-dimensional interior spatial domains. The approach relies on four main elements, namely, 1) A multiple scattering strategy that decomposes a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Oscar P. Bruno , Tao Yin

We present a fast spectral Galerkin scheme for the discretization of boundary integral equations arising from two-dimensional Helmholtz transmission problems in multi-layered periodic structures or gratings. Employing suitably parametrized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-06 José Pinto , Rubén Aylwin , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes

In this paper, we propose fast solvers for Maxwell's equations in rectangular domains. We first discretize the simplified Maxwell's eigenvalue problems by employing the lowest-order rectangular N\'ed\'elec elements and derive the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Lixiu Wang , Lueling Jia , Zijian Cao , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

This paper presents an efficient parallel direct algorithm with near-optimal complexity for the compact fourth and sixth-order approximation of the three-dimensional Helmholtz equations [1] with the problem coefficient depending on only one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Ronald Gonzales , Yury Gryazin , Yun Teck Lee

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Emile Parolin , Daan Huybrechs , Andrea Moiola

We give a novel convergence theory for two-level hybrid Schwarz domain-decomposition (DD) methods for finite-element discretisations of the high-frequency Helmholtz equation. This theory gives sufficient conditions for the preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence