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We develop a new dispersion minimizing compact finite difference scheme for the Helmholtz equation in 2 and 3 dimensions. The scheme is based on a newly developed ray theory for difference equations. A discrete Helmholtz operator and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Christiaan C. Stolk

This work proposes and analyzes a fully discrete numerical scheme for solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, which achieves fourth-order spatial accuracy and third-order temporal accuracy.Spatially, fourth-order accuracy is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Changjian Xie , Cheng Wang

We study the convergence of multigrid schemes for the Helmholtz equation, focusing in particular on the choice of the coarse scale operators. Let G_c denote the number of points per wavelength at the coarse level. If the coarse scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Christiaan C. Stolk , Mostak Ahmed , Samir K. Bhowmik

We investigate the parallel one-level overlapping Schwarz method for solving finite element discretization of high-frequency Helmholtz equations. The resulting linear systems are large, indefinite, ill-conditioned, and complex-valued. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Yan Xie , Shihua Gong , Ivan G. Graham , Euan A. Spence , Chen-Song Zhang

We present and compare third- as well as fifth-order accurate finite difference schemes for the numerical solution of the compressible ideal MHD equations in multiple spatial dimensions. The selected methods lean on four different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Mignone , P. Tzeferacos , G. Bodo

In this paper we address the temporal energy growth associated with numerical approximations of the perfectly matched layer (PML) for Maxwell's equations in first order form. In the literature, several studies have shown that a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Kenneth Duru

Numerical discretization of the large-scale Maxwell's equations leads to an ill-conditioned linear system that is challenging to solve. The key requirement for successive solutions of this linear system is to choose an efficient solver. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Sahar Borzooei , Victorita Dolean , Pierre-Henri Tournier , Claire Migliaccio

In this paper, we design a truly exact and optimal perfect absorbing layer (PAL) for domain truncation of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation in an unbounded domain with bounded scatterers. This technique is based on a complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Zhiguo Yang , Li-Lian Wang , Yang Gao

In this work, a new compact sixth order accurate finite difference scheme for the two and three-dimensional Helmholtz equation is presented. The main significance of the proposed scheme is that its sixth order leading truncation error term…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Neelesh Kumar , Ritesh Kumar Dubey

In this paper, using the approximate particular solutions of Helmholtz equations, we solve the boundary value problems of Helmholtz equations by combining the methods of fundamental solutions (MFS) with the methods of particular solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Adam Johnson

A nonlocal perfectly matched layer (PML) is formulated for the nonlocal wave equation in the whole real axis and numerical discretization is designed for solving the reduced PML problem on a bounded domain. The nonlocal PML poses challenges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Yu Du , Jiwei Zhang

This work is about a new two-level solver for Helmholtz equations discretized by finite elements. The method is inspired by two-grid methods for finite-difference Helmholtz problems as well as by previous work on two-level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Christiaan C. Stolk

The Helmholtz equation is fundamental to wave modeling in acoustics, electromagnetics, and seismic imaging, yet high-frequency regimes remain challenging due to the ``pollution effect''. We propose FD-MGDL, an adaptive framework integrating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Peiyao Zhao , Rui Wang , Tingting Wu , Yuesheng Xu

We propose a Bernoulli phase-fitted (BPF) finite difference method for the Helmholtz equation on the interval $(0, L)$ with impedance boundary conditions. The scheme is derived from a complexified Scharfetter--Gummel discretization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Ansgar Jüngel , Panchi Li , Zhiwei Sun , Zhiwen Zhang

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

We consider the Dirichlet problem of the indefinite Helmholtz equation in 1D, $u''+k^2u=f$ in $(0,1)$, $u(0)=g_0$, $u(1)=g_1$, with a constant wavenumber $k\in(0,\infty)\backslash\pi\mathbb{N}$ and a source term $f\in H^p_0(0,1)$, $p\ge 4$.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Martin J. Gander , Hui Zhang , Haiyang Zhou

Numerical simulation of wave propagation in an infinite medium is made possible by surrounding a finite region by a perfectly matched layer (PML). Using this approach a generalized three-dimensional (3D) formulation is proposed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Hisham Assi , Richard S. C. Cobbold

The perfectly matched layers (PMLs), as a boundary termination over an unbounded spatial domain, are widely used in numerical simulations of wave propagation problems. Given a set of discretization parameters, a procedure to select the PML…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-11-22 Jiawei Zhang

The Helmholtz scattering problem with high wave number is truncated by the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and then discretized by the linear continuous interior penalty finite element method (CIP-FEM). It is proved that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu

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