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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

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic description of high-frequency waves in locally periodic media. A key issue is that the Bloch-dispersion curves vary with the local microstructure, giving rise to hidden singularities associated…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-13 Ory Schnitzer

This paper presents a high-accuracy higher-order multiscale method for solving multi-continuum problems in in highly heterogeneous media. First, microscopic unit cell functions are defined, leading to the derivation of macroscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Hao Dong , Jiayuan Peng , Jian Huang

We developed fast direct solver for 3D Helmholtz and Maxwell equations in layered medium. The algorithm is based on the ideas of cyclic reduction for separable matrices. For the grids with major uniform part (within the survey domain in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Vladimir Druskin , Mikhail Zaslavsky

Numerical solution of heterogeneous Helmholtz problems presents various computational challenges, with descriptive theory remaining out of reach for many popular approaches. Robustness and scalability are key for practical and reliable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Niall Bootland , Victorita Dolean

A new method for numerical solving of boundary problem for ordinary differential equations with slowly varying coefficients which is aimed at better representation of solutions in the regions of their rapid oscillations or exponential…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. E. Moiseenko , V. V. Pilipenko

Acoustic wave propagation through a homogeneous material embedded in an unbounded medium can be formulated as a boundary integral equation and accurately solved with the boundary element method. The computational efficiency deteriorates at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Elwin van 't Wout

Multiscale problems are computationally costly to solve by direct simulation because the smallest scales must be represented over a domain determined by the largest scales of the problem. We have developed and analyzed new numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Björn Engquist , Henrik Holst , Olof Runborg

We analyse and implement a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) finite element method (FEM) for the forward problem of uncertainty quantification (UQ) for the Helmholtz equation with random coefficients, both in the second-order and zero-order terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Ivan G. Graham , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Ian H. Sloan , Euan A. Spence

In this contribution we present the first formulation of a heterogeneous multiscale method for an incompressible immiscible two-phase flow system with degenerate permeabilities. The method is in a general formulation which includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Patrick Henning , Mario Ohlberger , Ben Schweizer

A recently developed upscaling technique, the multicontinuum homogenization method, has gained significant attention for its effectiveness in modeling complex multiscale systems. This method defines multiple continua based on distinct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Wei Xie , Viet Ha Hoang , Yin Yang , Yunqing Huang

The Helmholtz equation is related to seismic exploration, sonar, antennas, and medical imaging applications. It is one of the most challenging problems to solve in terms of accuracy and convergence due to the scalability issues of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Jinqiang Chen , Vandana Dwarka , Cornelis Vuik

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 paper, we propose a fast multipole method (FMM) for 3-D linearized Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation in layered media. The main framework of the algorithm is analogous to the FMM for Helmholtz and Laplace equation in layered media…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Bo Wang , Wen Zhong Zhang , Wei Cai

In this paper we propose a multiscale method for the acoustic wave equation in highly oscillatory media. We use a higher-order extension of the localized orthogonal decomposition method combined with a higher-order time stepping scheme and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Felix Krumbiegel , Roland Maier

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

For the $h$-finite-element method ($h$-FEM) applied to the Helmholtz equation, the question of how quickly the meshwidth $h$ must decrease with the frequency $k$ to maintain accuracy as $k$ increases has been studied since the mid 80's.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-05 David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence , Jared Wunsch

We propose a new, harmonically enriched multiscale coarse space (HEM) for domain decomposition methods. For a coercive high contrast model problem, we show how to enrich the coarse space so that the method is robust against any variations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-17 Martin J. Gander , Atle Loneland , Talal Rahman

We present a Heterogeneous Multiscale Method for the Landau-Lifshitz equation with a highly oscillatory diffusion coefficient, a simple model for a ferromagnetic composite. A finite element macro scheme is combined with a finite difference…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Lena Leitenmaier , Murtazo Nazarov

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