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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…

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

The Helmholtz equation poses significant computational challenges due to its oscillatory solutions, particularly for large wavenumbers. Inspired by the Schur complement system for elliptic problems, this paper presents a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Yi Yu , Marcus Sarkis , Guanglian Li , Zhiwen Zhang

This paper proposes a frequency/time hybrid integral-equation method for the time dependent wave equation in two and three-dimensional spatial domains. Relying on Fourier Transformation in time, the method utilizes a fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Thomas G. Anderson , Oscar P. Bruno , Mark Lyon

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

This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

We present a deep learning-based iterative approach to solve the discrete heterogeneous Helmholtz equation for high wavenumbers. Combining classical iterative multigrid solvers and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) via preconditioning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Bar Lerer , Ido Ben-Yair , Eran Treister

In this paper, we propose and analyze an additive domain decomposition method (DDM) for solving the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with the Sommerfeld radiation condition. In the proposed method, the computational domain is partitioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Wei Leng , Lili Ju

In this paper we present an overview of recent progress on the development and analysis of domain decomposition preconditioners for discretised Helmholtz problems, where the preconditioner is constructed from the corresponding problem with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 I. G. Graham , E. A. Spence , E. Vainikko

We propose a novel variant of the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) method for time-harmonic scattering problems of Helmholtz type with high wavenumber $\kappa$. On a coarse mesh of width $H$, the proposed method identifies local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Philip Freese , Moritz Hauck , Daniel Peterseim

Extending the wavenumber-explicit analysis of [Chen & Qiu, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 309 (2017)], we analyze the $L^2$-convergence of a least squares method for the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k$. For domains with an analytic boundary,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Maximilian Bernkopf , Jens Markus Melenk

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

The partial differential equations describing compressible fluid flows can be notoriously difficult to resolve on a pragmatic scale and often require the use of high performance computing systems and/or accelerators. However, these systems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Anthony S. Walker , Kyle E. Niemeyer

The high-frequency Helmholtz equation on the entire space is truncated into a bounded domain using the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and subsequently, discretized by the higher-order finite element method (FEM) and the continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu

The Helmholtz equation arises in the study of electromagnetic radiation, optics, acoustics, etc. In spherical coordinates, its general solution can be written as a spherical harmonic series which satisfies the radiation condition at…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Youngae Han

A discretization scheme for variable coefficient Helmholtz problems on two-dimensional domains is presented. The scheme is based on high-order spectral approximations and is designed for problems with smooth solutions. The resulting system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-20 P. G. Martinsson

A parallel algorithm for solving a series of matrix equations with a constant tridiagonal matrix and different right-hand sides is proposed and studied. The process of solving the problem is represented in two steps. The first preliminary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-12-07 Andrew Terekhov

In this work, we develop a novel hybrid Schwarz method, termed as edge multiscale space based hybrid Schwarz (EMs-HS), for solving the Helmholtz problem with large wavenumbers. The problem is discretized using $H^1$-conforming nodal finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Shubin Fu , Shihua Gong , Guanglian Li , Yueqi Wang

This paper presents a scalable multigrid preconditioner targeting large-scale systems arising from discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations of high-frequency wave operators. This work is built on previously developed multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Jacob Badger , Stefan Henneking , Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

We analyse parallel overlapping Schwarz domain decomposition methods for the Helmholtz equation, where the subdomain problems satisfy first-order absorbing (impedance) transmission conditions, and exchange of information between subdomains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Shihua Gong , Martin J. Gander , Ivan G. Graham , David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence

Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems in the frequency domain within heterogeneous media poses significant mathematical and computational challenges, particularly in the high-frequency regime. Among the available numerical…

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