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We develop a high order accurate numerical method for solving the elastic wave equation in second-order form. We hybridize the computationally efficient Cartesian grid formulation of finite differences with geometrically flexible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Andreas Granath , Siyang Wang

We consider the numerical simulation of the acoustic wave equations arising from seismic applications, for which staggered grid finite difference methods are popular choices due to their simplicity and efficiency. We relax the uniform grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Longfei Gao , David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark Carpenter , David Keyes

New implicit and implicit-explicit time-stepping methods for the wave equation in second-order form are described with application to two and three-dimensional problems discretized on overset grids. The implicit schemes are single step,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Allison M. Carson , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Donald W. Schwendeman

Staggered grid finite difference scheme is widely used for the first order elastic wave equation, which constitutes the basis for least-squares reverse time migration and full waveform inversion. It is of great importance to improve the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-06-08 Wenquan Liang , Chaofan Wu , Yanfei Wang , Changchun Yang , Xiaobi Xie

New finite element methods are proposed for elliptic interface problems in one and two dimensions. The main motivation is not only to get an accurate solution but also an accurate first order derivative at the interface (from each side).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Fangfang Qin , Zhaohui Wang , Zhijie Ma , Zhilin Li

We present a finite-difference scheme which solves the Stokes problem in the presence of curvilinear non-conforming interfaces and provides second-order accuracy on physical field (velocity, vorticity) and especially on pressure. The gist…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-07 Abdelkader Hammouti , Anaël Lemaître

A high order cut finite element method is formulated for solving the elastic wave equation. Both a single domain problem and an interface problem are treated. The boundary or interface are allowed to cut through the background mesh. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Simon Sticko , Gustav Ludvigsson , Gunilla Kreiss

We consider the finite difference discretization of isotropic elastic wave equations on nonuniform grids. The intended applications are seismic studies, where heterogeneity of the earth media can lead to severe oversampling for simulations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Longfei Gao , David Keyes

This paper presents a spatial two-grid (STG) compact difference scheme for a two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear diffusion-wave equation with variable exponent, which describes, e.g., the propagation of mechanical diffusive waves in viscoelastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Hao Zhang , Kexin Li , Wenlin Qiu

Highly accurate simulations of problems including second derivatives on complex geometries are of primary interest in academia and industry. Consider for example the Navier-Stokes equations or wave propagation problems of acoustic or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Gustav Eriksson

In this paper we present a one dimensional second order accurate method to solve Elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients on an arbitrary interface. Second order accuracy for the first derivative is obtained as well. The method is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Armando Coco , Giovanni Russo

Context: Calculating stellar pulsations requires a sufficient accuracy to match the quality of the observations. Many current pulsation codes apply a second order finite-difference scheme, combined with Richardson extrapolation to reach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. R. Reese

This paper extends previous work on finitedifference schemes over staggered grids for infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems. In the one-dimensional setting, it generalizes the discretization approach originally developed for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ignacio Diaz Alastuey , Yann Le Gorrec , Yongxin Wu

In this paper, we propose a novel high order unfitted finite element method on Cartesian meshes for solving the acoustic wave equation with discontinuous coefficients having complex interface geometry. The unfitted finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Zhiming Chen , Yong Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

In this work we explore the fidelity of numerical approximations to the analytic spectra of hyperbolic partial differential equation systems with variable coefficients. We are particularly interested in the ability of discrete methods to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Brittany A. Erickson

In multi-phase fluid flow, fluid-structure interaction, and other applications, partial differential equations (PDEs) often arise with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources (e.g., Dirac delta functions). These complexities arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Chung-Nan Tzou , Samuel Stechmann

A methodology for handling block-to-block coupling of nonconforming, multiblock summation-by-parts finite difference methods is proposed. The coupling is based on the construction of projection operators that move a finite difference grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Jeremy E. Kozdon , Lucas C. Wilcox

We develop a fourth order accurate finite difference method for the three dimensional elastic wave equation in isotropic media with the piecewise smooth material property. In our model, the material property can be discontinuous at curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Lu Zhang , Siyang Wang , N. Anders Petersson

In this work, we propose and develop efficient and accurate numerical methods for solving the Kirchhoff-Love plate model in domains with complex geometries. The algorithms proposed here employ curvilinear finite-difference methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Longfei Li , Hangjie Ji , Qi Tang

A novel numerical approach to solving the shallow-water equations on the sphere using high-order numerical discretizations in both space and time is proposed. A space-time tensor formalism is used to express the equations of motion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Stéphane Gaudreault , Martin Charron , Valentin Dallerit , Mayya Tokman