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Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems in the frequency domain within heterogeneous media poses significant mathematical and computational challenges, particularly in the high-frequency regime. Among the available numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Victorita Dolean , Mark Fry , Matthias Langer , Emile Parolin , Pierre-Henri Tournier

This article contributes a key ingredient to the longstanding open problem of understanding the fully nonlinear version of Jeans instability, as highlighted by A. Rendall [Living Rev. Relativ. 8, 6 (2005)]. We establish a family of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Chao Liu

We study the Cauchy problem on the real line for the nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation in one spatial dimension, \[ u_t = D u_{xx} + u(1-\phi*u), \] where $\phi*u$ is a spatial convolution with the top hat kernel, $\phi(y) \equiv…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 D. J. Needham , J. Billingham , N. M. Ladas , J. C. Meyer

This report aims to present my research updates on distance function wavelets (DFW) based on the fundamental solutions and the general solutions of the Helmholtz, modified Helmholtz, and convection-diffusion equations, which include the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 W. Chen

Solving time-harmonic wave propagation problems in the frequency domain and within heterogeneous media brings many mathematical and computational challenges, especially in the high frequency regime. We will focus here on computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Niall Bootland , Victorita Dolean , Pierre Jolivet , Pierre-Henri Tournier

This paper focuses on the well-posedness (or lack thereof) of three-dimensional time-harmonic wave propagation problems modeled by the Helmholtz equation. It is well-known that if the problem is set in bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 T. Chaumont-Frelet

We consider travelling periodical and quasiperiodical waves in single mode fibres, with weak birefringence and under the action of cross-phase modulation. The problem is reduced to the ``1:2:1" integrable case of the two-particle quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 P L Christiansen , J C Eilbeck , V Z Enolskii , N A Kostov

In this paper we extend analysis of the WaveHoltz iteration -- a time-domain iterative method for the solution of the Helmholtz equation. We expand the previous analysis of energy conserving problems and prove convergence of the WaveHoltz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Fortino Garcia , Daniel Appelö , Olof Runborg

We construct time quasi-periodic solutions to nonlinear wave equations on the torus in arbitrary dimensions. All previously known results (in the case of zero or a multiplicative potential) seem to be limited to the circle. This generalizes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Wei-Min Wang

A general method for the derivation of asymptotic nonlinear shallow water and deep water models is presented. Starting from a general dimensionless version of the water-wave equations, we reduce the problem to a system of two equations on…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-10-09 David Lannes , Philippe Bonneton

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

We propose a novel on-surface radiation condition to approximate the outgoing solution to the Helmholtz equation in the exterior of several impenetrable convex obstacles. Based on a local approximation of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Sebastian Acosta

Wave propagation in one-dimensional heterogeneous bistable media is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Starting from the analytically known traveling wave solution for the homogeneous medium, infinitely extended,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-19 Jakob Löber , Markus Bär , Harald Engel

Starting from the wave equation for a medium with material properties that vary periodically, we study a system of recurrence relations that describe propagation of wave packets that oscillate on the microscale (i.e. on lengths of the order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Kirill Cherednichenko

In this paper, we present a multiscale framework for solving the Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media without scale separation and in the high frequency regime where the wavenumber $k$ can be large. The main innovation is that our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Yifan Chen , Thomas Y. Hou , Yixuan Wang

The Hirota equation is a higher order extension of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation by incorporating third order dispersion and one form of self steepening effect. New periodic waves for the discrete Hirota equation are given in terms of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-16 Robert Conte , Kwok-wing Chow

This work is devoted to the analysis of high frequency solutions to the equations of nonlinear elasticity in a half-space. We consider surface waves (or more precisely, Rayleigh waves) arising in the general class of isotropic hyperelastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Jean-Francois Coulombel , Mark Williams

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the Helmholtz equation in a wave-guide. We consider a medium that is bounded in the $x_2$-direction, unbounded in the $x_1$-direction and $\varepsilon$-periodic for large $|x_1|$, allowing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Tomáš Dohnal , Ben Schweizer

This paper is concerned with space-time homogenization problems for damped wave equations with spatially periodic oscillating elliptic coefficients and temporally (arithmetic) quasi-periodic oscillating viscosity coefficients. Main results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Tomoyuki Oka

We explore the propagation and transformation of electromagnetic waves through spatially homogeneous yet smoothly time-dependent media within the framework of classical electrodynamics. By modelling the smooth transition, occurring during a…