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We present a fast solver for the 3D high-frequency Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous, constant density, acoustic media. The solver is based on the method of polarized traces, coupled with distributed linear algebra libraries and…

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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…

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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…

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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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A new domain decomposition method is introduced for the heterogeneous 2-D and 3-D Helmholtz equations. Transmission conditions based on the perfectly matched layer (PML) are derived that avoid artificial reflections and match incoming and…

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Frequency-domain full-waveform inversion (FWI) is suitable for long-offset stationary-recording acquisition, since reliable subsurface models can be reconstructed with a few frequencies and attenuation is easily implemented without…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Stéphane Operto , Pierre-Henri Tournier

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

Getting standard multigrid to work efficiently for the high-frequency Helmholtz equation has been an open problem in applied mathematics for years. Much effort has been dedicated to finding solution methods which can use multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Vandana Dwarka , Cornelis Vuik

In this paper, we propose a spectral framework that embeds 1D and 2D quasiperiodic Helmholtz eigenvalue problems into higher-dimensional (2D and 4D) periodic spaces via the projection method \cite{jiang2014numerical, jiang2024numerical}. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Teng-Chao Sun , Tiexiang Li , Wen-Wei Lin , Xing-Long Lyu

In several geophysical applications, such as full waveform inversion and data modelling, we are facing the solution of inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation. The difficulties of solving the Helmholtz equa- tion are two fold. Firstly, in the case…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Nasser Kazemi

In this article, we present a new preconditioner, MatExPre, for the high-frequency Helmholtz equation by leveraging the properties of matrix exponentials. Our approach begins by reformulating the Helmholtz equation into a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Shubin Fu , Qing Huo Liu , Qiwei Zhan , Eric T. Chung , Changqing Ye

In this paper we consider high-frequency acoustic transmission problems with jumping coefficients modelled by Helmholtz equations. The solution then is highly oscillatory and, in addition, may be localized in a very small vicinity of…

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In this paper, we present a multiscale framework for solving the Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media without scale separation and in the high frequency regime where the wavenumber $k$ can be large. The main innovation is that our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Yifan Chen , Thomas Y. Hou , Yixuan Wang

We develop and analyze a new approach for simultaneously computing multiple solutions to the Helmholtz equation for different frequencies and different forcing functions. The new Multi-Frequency WaveHoltz (MFWH) algorithm is an extension of…

We present and analyze an approximation scheme for a class of highly oscillatory kernel functions, taking the 2D and 3D Helmholtz kernels as examples. The scheme is based on polynomial interpolation combined with suitable pre- and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Steffen Börm , Jens Markus Melenk

We provide an iterative solution approach for the indefinite Helmholtz equation discretised using finite elements, based upon a Hermitian Skew-Hermitian Splitting (HSS) iteration applied to the shifted operator, and prove that the iteration…

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A robust multilevel preconditioner based on the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the Helmholtz equation with high wave number is presented in this paper. There are two keys in our algorithm, one is how to choose a suitable…

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In this work the Lippmann-Schwinger equation is used to model seismic waves in strongly scattering acoustic media. We consider the Helmholtz equation, which is the scalar wave equation in the frequency domain with constant density and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Kjersti Solberg Eikrem , Geir Nævdal , Morten Jakobsen

A boundary integral equation method for the 3-D Helmholtz equation in multilayered media with many quasi-periodic layers is presented. Compared with conventional quasi-periodic Green's function method, the new method is robust at all…

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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…

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