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An isogeometric boundary element method (BEM) is presented to solve scattering problems in an isotropic homogeneous medium. We consider wave problems governed by the scalar wave equation as in acoustics and the Lam\'e-Navier equations for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Thomas Kramer , Benjamin Marussig , Martin Schanz

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

This paper is concerned with a Galerkin boundary element method solving the two dimensional exterior elastic wave scattering problem. The original problem is first reduced to the so-called Burton-Miller (\cite{BM71}) boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Gang Bao , Liwei Xu , Tao Yin

A highly efficient fast boundary element method (BEM) for solving large-scale engineering acoustic problems in a broad frequency range is developed and implemented. The acoustic problems are modeled by the Burton-Miller boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Yanchuang Cao , Lihua Wen , Jinyou Xiao

This paper develops some interior penalty $hp$-discontinuous Galerkin ($hp$-DG) methods for the Helmholtz equation in two and three dimensions. The proposed $hp$-DG methods are defined using a sesquilinear form which is not only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-07-21 Xiaobing Feng , Haijun Wu

It is well known that the Fourier series Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) boundary condition can be used to solve the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains. In this work, applying such DtN boundary condition and using the finite element method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Liwei Xu , Tao Yin

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. In this paper, a novel boundary integral formulation is proposed and its highly accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

The study performs large-eddy simulations of supersonic free jet flows using the Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method (DGSEM). The main objective of the present work is to assess the resolution requirements for adequate simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-22 Diego F. Abreu , João Luiz F. Azevedo , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

We present a numerical study to investigate the conditioning of the plane wave discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the Helmholtz problem. We provide empirical evidence that the spectral condition number of the plane wave basis on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Scott Congreve , Joscha Gedicke , Ilaria Perugia

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

This paper addresses the properties of Continuous Interior Penalty (CIP) finite element solutions for the Helmholtz equation. The $h$-version of the CIP finite element method with piecewise linear approximation is applied to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Lingxue Zhu , Erik Burman , Haijun Wu

In this paper we consider high-frequency acoustic transmission problems with jumping coefficients modelled by Helmholtz equations. The solution then is highly oscillatory and, in addition, may be localized in a very small vicinity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Silvia Falletta , Stefan Sauter

Boundary element methods (BEM) reduce a partial differential equation in a domain to an integral equation on the domain's boundary. They are particularly attractive for solving problems on unbounded domains, but handling the dense matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Steffen Börm

We propose a novel numerical homogenization method based on the edge multiscale approach for solving indefinite time-harmonic Maxwell equations in heterogeneous media with large wavenumber. Numerical methods for these equations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Yueqi Wang , Wing Tat Leung , Guanglian Li

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

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

We discuss the implementation details and the numerical performance of the recently introduced nonconforming Trefftz virtual element method for the 2D Helmholtz problem. In particular, we present a strategy to significantly reduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 L. Mascotto , I. Perugia , A. Pichler

In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of classic multiscale finite element method (MsFEM) (Hou and Wu, 1997; Hou et al., 1999) for mixed Dirichlet-Neumann, Robin and hemivariational inequality boundary problems. Constructing so-called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Changqing Ye , Hao Dong , Junzhi Cui

We describe a numerical method for the solution of acoustic exterior scattering problems based on the time-domain boundary integral representation of the solution. As the spatial discretization of the resulting time-domain boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Ebraheem Aldahham , Lehel Banjai

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