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We study the numerical solution of scalar time-harmonic wave equations on unbounded domains which can be split into a bounded interior domain of primary interest and an exterior domain with separable geometry. To compute the solution in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Thorsten Hohage , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Janosch Preuss

Dynamical energy analysis was recently introduced as a new method for determining the distribution of mechanical and acoustic wave energy in complex built up structures. The technique interpolates between standard statistical energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 David J. Chappell , Gregor Tanner , Stefano Giani

Convergence failure and slow convergence rate are among the biggest challenges with solving the system of non-linear equations numerically. While using strictly small time steps sizes and unconditionally stable fully implicit scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Hanyu Li , Mary F. Wheeler

An isogeometric boundary element method (BEM) is presented to solve scattering problems in an isotropic homogeneous medium. We consider wave problems governed by the scalar wave equation as in acoustics and the Lam\'e-Navier equations for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Thomas Kramer , Benjamin Marussig , Martin Schanz

This is a study of certain finite element methods designed for convection-dominated, time-dependent partial differential equations. Specifically, we analyze high order space-time tensor product finite element discretizations, used in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Randolph E. Bank , Maximilian S. Metti

This paper concerns an inverse elastic scattering problem which is to determine the location and the shape of a rigid obstacle from the phased or phaseless far-field data for a single incident plane wave. By introducing the Helmholtz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

This paper develops and analyzes a fully discrete finite element method for a class of semilinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. The nonlinearity in the diffusion term of the SPDEs is assumed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

The purpose of this work is to introduce and analyze a numerical scheme to efficiently solve boundary value problems involving the spectral fractional Laplacian. The approach is based on a reformulation of the problem posed on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Johannes Pfefferer , Klemens Schürholz , Boris Vexler

We propose a novel method for the efficient and accurate iterative solution of frequency domain integral equations (IEs) that are used for large/multi-scale electromagnetic scattering problems. The proposed method uses a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Enes Koç , Mert Kalfa , Secil E. Dogan , Vakur B. Ertürk

This paper develops a smoothing-based postprocessing method for superconvergence in finite element methods. The method applies a few smoothing iterations, such as damped Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, or conjugate gradient, with initial guess being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Yuwen Li , Han Shui , Ludmil Zikatanov

We propose and analyze an unfitted finite element method for solving elliptic problems on domains with curved boundaries and interfaces. The approximation space on the whole domain is obtained by the direct extension of the finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Fanyi Yang , Xiaoping Xie

In this paper we propose and analyze a new Multiscale Method for solving semi-linear elliptic problems with heterogeneous and highly variable coefficient functions. For this purpose we construct a generalized finite element basis that spans…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Patrick Henning , Axel Malqvist , Daniel Peterseim

The frequency-domain fast boundary element method (BEM) combined with the exponential window technique leads to an efficient yet simple method for elastodynamic analysis. In this paper, the efficiency of this method is further enhanced by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Jinyou Xiao , Wenjing Ye , Lihua Wen

In order to reduce the computational cost of the simulation of electromagnetic responses in geophysical settings that involve highly heterogeneous media, we develop a multiscale finite volume method with oversampling for the quasi-static…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 Luz Angelica Caudillo Mata , Eldad Haber , Christoph Schwarzbach

This paper presents a multiscale Petrov-Galerkin finite element method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems with heterogeneous coefficients in the high-frequency regime. We show that the method is pollution- free also in the case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Donald L. Brown , Dietmar Gallistl , Daniel Peterseim

We present an indirect higher order boundary element method utilising NURBS mappings for exact geometry representation and an interpolation-based fast multipole method for compression and reduction of computational complexity, to counteract…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Jürgen Dölz , Helmut Harbrecht , Stefan Kurz , Sebastian Schöps , Felix Wolf

The $h$-version of the finite-element method ($h$-FEM) applied to the high-frequency Helmholtz equation has been a classic topic in numerical analysis since the 1990s. It is now rigorously understood that (using piecewise polynomials of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Martin Averseng , Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , Jiun-Shyan Chen

Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Murthy N. Guddati , Vladimir Druskin , Ali Vaziri Astaneh

In this work, we propose an adaptive spectral element algorithm for solving nonlinear optimal control problems. The method employs orthogonal collocation at the shifted Gegenbauer-Gauss points combined with very accurate and stable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Kareem T. Elgindy