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In this work, we develop a localized numerical scheme with low regularity requirements for solving time-fractional integro-differential equations. First, a fully discrete numerical scheme is constructed. Specifically, for temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Lijing Zhao , Rui Zhao , Wenyi Tian , Yufeng Nie

This paper presents a new fast multipole boundary element method (FM-BEM) for solving the acoustic transmission problems in 2D periodic media. We divide the periodic media into many fundamental blocks, and then construct the boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Wenhui Meng , Ruifei Liu

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is a popular numerical approach to impose boundary conditions without relying on body-fitted grids, thus reducing the costly effort of mesh generation. To obtain enhanced accuracy, IBM can be combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Victor J. Llorente , Jiaqing Kou , Eusebio Valero , Esteban Ferrer

Solving real-world nonlinear semiconductor device problems modeled by the drift-diffusion equations coupled with the Poisson equation (also known as the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations) necessitates an accurate and efficient numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Qingyuan Shi , Yongyong Cai , Chijie Zhuang , Bo Lin , Dan Wu , Rong Zeng , Weizhu Bao

A coupled hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) and boundary integral (BI) method is proposed to efficiently analyze electromagnetic scattering from inhomogeneous/composite objects. The coupling between the HDG and the BI equations is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ran Zhao , Ming Dong , Liang Chen , Jun Hu , Hakan Bagci

We consider the Galerkin boundary element method (BEM) for weakly-singular integral equations of the first-kind in 2D. We analyze some residual-type a posteriori error estimator which provides a lower as well as an upper bound for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Michael Feischl , Gregor Gantner , Dirk Praetorius

The isogeometric formulation of Boundary Element Method (BEM) is investigated within the adaptivity framework. Suitable weighted quadrature rules to evaluate integrals appearing in the Galerkin BEM formulation of 2D Laplace model problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Antonella Falini , Carlotta Giannelli , Tadej Kanduc , Maria Lucia Sampoli , Alessandra Sestini

We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems. The main focus is on plane waves scattered by smoothly varying material inhomogeneities. The proposed method works for any frequency $\omega$, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

The calculation of the acoustic field in or around objects is an important task in acoustic engineering. To numerically solve this task, the boundary element method (BEM) is a commonly used method especially for infinite domains. The open…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Wolfgang Kreuzer , Katharina Pollack , Fabian Brinkmann , Piotr Majdak

The Boundary Element Method (BEM) is a powerful numerical approach for solving 3D elastostatic problems, particularly useful for crack propagation in fracture mechanics and half-space problems. A key challenge in BEM lies in handling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Vibudha Lakshmi Keshava , Martin Schanz

Numerical simulations of waves in highly heterogeneous media have important applications, but direct computations are prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we develop a new generalized multiscale finite element method with the aim of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Eric T. Chung , Wing Tat Leung

A novel boundary element method (BEM) removes the classical dependence on explicit fundamental solutions and extends quasi-optimal BEM discretisations to strongly elliptic operators with variable coefficients. The approach constructs a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter

We introduce the harmonic virtual element method (harmonic VEM), a modification of the virtual element method (VEM) for the approximation of the 2D Laplace equation using polygonal meshes. The main difference between the harmonic VEM and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Alexey Chernov , Lorenzo Mascotto

The boundary element method (BEM) provides an efficient numerical framework for solving multiple scattering problems in unbounded homogeneous domains, since it reduces the discretization to the domain boundaries, thereby condensing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Rémi Marsal , Stéphanie Chaillat

High-order methods offer superior dispersion and dissipation properties compared to low-order schemes but require robust stabilization for discontinuities. To ensure stability, local artificial viscosity is common, but often degrades…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Anna Schwarz , Jens Keim , Christian Rohde , Andrea Beck

We present a fast spectral Galerkin scheme for the discretization of boundary integral equations arising from two-dimensional Helmholtz transmission problems in multi-layered periodic structures or gratings. Employing suitably parametrized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-06 José Pinto , Rubén Aylwin , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes

Collocation boundary element methods for integral equations are easier to implement than Galerkin methods because the elements of the discretization matrix are given by lower-dimensional integrals. For that same reason, the matrix assembly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Georg Maierhofer , Daan Huybrechs

This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulations using particle-in-cell (PIC) schemes. This approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Tobias Ott , Stephen Copplestone , Marcel Pfeiffer

Functional error estimates are well-established tools for a posteriori error estimation and related adaptive mesh-refinement for the finite element method (FEM). The present work proposes a first functional error estimate for the boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Stefan Kurz , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius , Sergey Repin , Daniel Sebastian

The finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM) can numerically solve the Helmholtz system for acoustic wave propagation. When an object with heterogeneous wave speed or density is embedded in an unbounded exterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Elwin van 't Wout