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The acoustic scattering problem is modeled by the exterior Helmholtz equation, which is challenging to solve due to both the unboundedness of the domain and the high dispersion error, known as the pollution effect. We develop high-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Bin Han , Jiwoon Sim

In the analysis of the $h$-version of the finite-element method (FEM), with fixed polynomial degree $p$, applied to the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k\gg 1$, the $\textit{asymptotic regime}$ is when $(hk)^p C_{\rm sol}$ is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

The problem of the fictitious frequency spectrum resulting from numerical implementations of the boundary element method for the exterior Helmholtz problem is revisited. When the ordinary 3D free space Green's function is replaced by a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Evert Klaseboer , Florian D. E. Charlet , Boo-Cheong Khoo , Qiang Sun , Derek Y. C. Chan

The singularities that arise in elliptic boundary value problems are treated locally by a singular function boundary integral method. This method extracts the leading singular coefficients from a series expansion that describes the local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-21 George Pashos , Athanasios G. Papathanasiou , Andreas G. Boudouvis

In this paper, a generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving high-frequency heterogeneous Helmholtz problems is systematically studied. The local spaces are built from selected eigenvectors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Chupeng Ma , Christian Alber , Robert Scheichl

We consider an ultra-weak first order system discretization of the Helmholtz equation. When employing the optimal test norm, the `ideal' method yields the best approximation to the pair of the Helmholtz solution and its scaled gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Harald Monsuur , Rob Stevenson

The regularity of the solution of elliptic partial differential equa- tions in a polygonal domain with re-entrant corners is, in general, reduced compared to the one on a smooth convex domain. This results in a best approximation property…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Thomas Horger , Petra Pustejovska , Barbara Wohlmuth

A convergence theory for the $hp$-FEM applied to a variety of constant-coefficient Helmholtz problems was pioneered in the papers [Melenk-Sauter, 2010], [Melenk-Sauter, 2011], [Esterhazy-Melenk, 2012], [Melenk-Parsania-Sauter, 2013]. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-08 David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence , Jared Wunsch

In this paper, which is part II in a series of two, the pre-asymptotic error analysis of the continuous interior penalty finite element method (CIP-FEM) and the FEM for the Helmholtz equation in two and three dimensions is continued. While…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Lingxue Zhu , Haijun Wu

In this paper we develop a class of efficient Galerkin boundary element methods for the solution of two-dimensional exterior single-scattering problems. Our approach is based upon construction of Galerkin approximation spaces confined to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Fatih Ecevit , Hasan Hüseyin Eruslu

A nonlinear Helmholtz (NLH) equation with high frequencies and corner singularities is discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM). After deriving some wave-number-explicit stability estimates and the singularity decomposition for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Run Jiang , Haijun Wu , Yifeng Xu , Jun Zou

We introduce a new Petrov-Galerkin multiscale method for the numerical approximation of the Helmholtz equation with large wave number $\kappa$ in bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The discrete trial and test spaces are generated from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Daniel Peterseim

While the exterior Helmholtz problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions is always well-posed, the associated standard boundary integral equations are not if the squared wavenumber agrees with an eigenvalue of the interior Dirichlet problem.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Gregor Gantner

High-frequency wave propagation has many important applications in acoustics, elastodynamics, and electromagnetics. Unfortunately, the finite element discretization for these problems suffers from significant numerical pollution errors that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Stefan Henneking , Leszek Demkowicz

A posteriori upper and lower bounds are derived for the linear finite element method (FEM) for the Helmholtz equation with large wave number. It is proved rigorously that the standard residual type error estimator seriously underestimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Songyao Duan , Haijun Wu

We study superconvergence property of the linear discontinuous Galerkin finite element method with the polynomial preserving recovery (PPR) and Richardson extrapolation for the two dimensional Helmholtz equation. The error estimate with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Yu Du , Zhimin Zhang

The displacement field for three dimensional dynamic elasticity problems in the frequency domain can be decomposed into a sum of a longitudinal and a transversal part known as a Helmholtz decomposition. The Cartesian components of both the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Evert Klaseboer , Qiang Sun , Derek Y. C. Chan

The boundary element method (BEM) is an efficient numerical method for simulating harmonic wave propagation. It uses boundary integral formulations of the Helmholtz equation at the interfaces of piecewise homogeneous domains. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Elwin van 't Wout , Seyyed R. Haqshenas , Pierre Gélat , Timo Betcke , Nader Saffari

We study superconvergence property of the linear finite element method with the polynomial preserving recovery (PPR) and Richardson extrapolation for the two dimensional Helmholtz equation. The $H^1$-error estimate with explicit dependence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Yu Du , Haijun Wu , Zhimin Zhang

This study compares the Boundary Element Method (BEM) and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation in wave scattering problems. The objective is to evaluate the performance of both methods…