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We consider second-order PDE problems set in unbounded domains and discretized by Lagrange finite elements on a finite mesh, thus introducing an artificial boundary in the discretization. Specifically, we consider the reaction diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-31 T. Chaumont-Frelet

In this paper, new boundary differential equations for the two-dimensional exterior scattering problem have been derived. It has been shown that the Helmholtz equation can be reduced to an inhomogeneous Bessel's equation in a body-fitted…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Wen Geyi

This paper is concerned with error estimates of the fully discrete generalized finite element method (GFEM) with optimal local approximation spaces for solving elliptic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. The local approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl

An adapted bubble approach which is a modifiation of the residual-free bubbles (RFB) method, is proposed for the Helmhotz problem in 2D. A new two-level finite element method is introduced for the approximations of the bubble functions.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Adem Kaya

This paper is concerned with the two--phase obstacle problem, a type of a variational free boundary problem. We recall the basic estimates of Repin and Valdman (2015) and verify them numerically on two examples in two space dimensions. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Farid Bozorgnia , Jan Valdman

We introduce an $hp$-version symmetric interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the numerical approximation of the biharmonic equation on general computational meshes consisting of polygonal/polyhedral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Zhaonan Dong

A finite element approach for approximating the solution of a mathematical model for the response of a penetrable, bounded object (obstacle) to the excitation by an external electromagnetic field is presented and investigated. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lutz Angermann

We prove sharp wavenumber-explicit error bounds for first- or second-family-N\'ed\'elec-element (a.k.a. edge-element) conforming discretisations, of arbitrary (fixed) order, of the variable-coefficient time-harmonic Maxwell equations posed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

In this paper, we couple regularization techniques of nondifferentiable optimization with the h-version of the boundary element method (h-BEM) to solve nonsmooth variational problems arising in contact mechanics. As a model example we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-12 N. Ovcharova

The mixed spectral element method (MSEM) is applied to solve the waveguide problem with Bloch periodic boundary condition (BPBC). Based on the BPBC for the original Helmholtz equation and the periodic boundary condition (PBC) for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Jie Liu , Wei Jiang , Na Liu , Qing Huo Liu

This paper is concerned with a numerical solution to the scattering of a time-harmonic electromagnetic wave by a bounded and impenetrable obstacle in three dimensions. The electromagnetic wave propagation is modeled by a boundary value…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Gang Bao , Mingming Zhang , Xue Jiang , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

We introduce and analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for the Helmholtz problem with approximating spaces made of products of low order VEM functions and plane waves. We restrict ourselves to the 2D Helmholtz equation with impedance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Ilaria Perugia , Paola Pietra , Alessandro Russo

The recent work [Kurz et al., Numer. Math., 147 (2021)] proposed functional a posteriori error estimates for boundary element methods (BEMs) together with a related adaptive mesh-refinement strategy. Unlike most a posteriori BEM error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Alexander Freiszlinger , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius

For $h$-FEM discretisations of the Helmholtz equation with wavenumber $k$, we obtain $k$-explicit analogues of the classic local FEM error bounds of [Nitsche, Schatz 1974], [Wahlbin 1991], [Demlow, Guzm\'an, Schatz 2011], showing that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Martin Averseng , Euan A. Spence , Jeffrey Galkowski

This paper presents an $hp$ a posteriori error analysis for the 2D Helmholtz equation that is robust in the polynomial degree $p$ and the wave number $k$. For the discretization, we consider a discontinuous Galerkin formulation that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Scott Congreve , Joscha Gedicke , Ilaria Perugia

We present a wavenumber-explicit analysis of FEM-BEM coupling methods for time-harmonic Helmholtz problems proposed in arXiv:2004.03523 for conforming discretizations and in arXiv:2105.06173 for discontinuous Galerkin (DG) volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Jens Markus Melenk , Ilaria Perugia , Alexander Rieder

The Fisher-KPP partial differential equation has been employed in science to model various biological, chemical, and thermal phenomena. Time fractional extensions of Fisher's equation have also appeared in the literature, aiming to model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Theodore V. Gortsas

We consider the scattering of acoustic perturbations in a presence of a flow. We suppose that the space can be split into a zone where the flow is uniform and a zone where the flow is potential. In the first zone, we apply a Prandtl-Glauert…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nolwenn Balin , Fabien Casenave , François Dubois , Eric Duceau , Stefan Duprey , Isabelle Terrasse

In this paper, using the approximate particular solutions of Helmholtz equations, we solve the boundary value problems of Helmholtz equations by combining the methods of fundamental solutions (MFS) with the methods of particular solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Adam Johnson

Numerical resolution of exterior Helmholtz problems requires some approach to domain truncation. As an alternative to approximate nonreflecting boundary conditions and invocation of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map, we introduce a new, nonlocal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Robert C. Kirby , Andreas Klöckner , Ben Sepanski