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The goal of this paper is to show that evanescent plane waves are much better at numerically approximating Helmholtz solutions than classical propagative plane waves. By generalizing the Jacobi$\unicode{x2013}$Anger identity to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Nicola Galante , Andrea Moiola , Emile Parolin

Superpositions of plane waves are known to approximate well the solutions of the Helmholtz equation. Their use in discretizations is typical of Trefftz methods for Helmholtz problems, aiming to achieve high accuracy with a small number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Emile Parolin , Daan Huybrechs , Andrea Moiola

Classical Trefftz methods approximate Helmholtz solutions using propagative plane waves and are subject to strong numerical instabilities. Evanescent plane wave bases can substantially mitigate this phenomenon. We propose a simple recipe to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Andrea Moiola , Nicola Galante , Emile Parolin

In this paper we develop a plane wave type method for discretization of homogeneous Helmholtz equations with variable wave numbers. In the proposed method, local basis functions (on each element) are constructed by the geometric optics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Qiya Hu , Zezhong Wang

In this paper we present and analyse a high accuracy method for computing wave directions defined in the geometrical optics ansatz of Helmholtz equation with variable wave number. Then we define an "adaptive" plane wave space with small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Qiya Hu , Zezhong Wang

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) models for wave propagation in inhomogeneous media are relevant for many applications. We will discuss numerical methods tailored for tackling problems governed by these variable-coefficient PDEs.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Ilaria Fontana , Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard

In this paper, we will study increasing stability in the inverse source problem for the Helmholtz equation in the plane when the source term is assumed to be compactly supported in a bounded domain $\Omega$ with sufficiently smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Mozhgan Nora Entekhabi , Victor Isakov

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

This work introduces a novel Trefftz Continuous Galerkin (TCG) method for 2D Helmholtz problems based on evanescent plane waves (EPWs). We construct a new globally-conforming discrete space, departing from standard discontinuous Trefftz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Nicola Galante , Bruno Després , Emile Parolin

The Wave Based Method (WBM) is a Trefftz method for the simulation of wave problems in vibroacoustics. Like other Trefftz methods, it employs a non-standard discretisation basis consisting of solutions of the partial differential equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Daan Huybrechs , Anda-Elena Olteanu

The Trefftz Discontinuous Galerkin (TDG) method is a technique for approximating the Helmholtz equation (or other linear wave equations) using piecewise defined local solutions of the equation to approximate the global solution. When…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard , Peter Monk

Trefftz methods are finite element-type schemes whose test and trial functions are (locally) solutions of the targeted differential equation. They are particularly popular for time-harmonic wave problems, as their trial spaces contain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Ralf Hiptmair , Andrea Moiola , Ilaria Perugia

We study numerically the dispersion and dissipation properties of the plane wave virtual element method and the nonconforming Trefftz virtual element method for the Helmholtz problem. Whereas the former method is based on a conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Ilaria Perugia , Alexander Pichler

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

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

Generalized Plane Waves (GPWs) were introduced to take advantage of Trefftz methods for problems modeled by variable coefficient equations. Despite the fact that GPWs do not satisfy the Trefftz property, i.e. they are not exact solutions to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard

We extend the nonconforming Trefftz virtual element method introduced in arXiv:1805.05634 to the case of the fluid-fluid interface problem, that is, a Helmholtz problem with piecewise constant wave number. With respect to the original…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 L. Mascotto , A. Pichler

Approximations by Trefftz functions are rapidly gaining popularity in the numerical solution of boundary value problems of mathematical physics. By definition, these functions satisfy locally, in weak form, the underlying differential…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Igor Tsukerman , Shampy Mansha , Y. D. Chong , Vadim A. Markel

We consider the problem of approximating a function using Herglotz wave functions, which are a superposition of plane waves. When the discrepancy is measured in a ball, we show that the problem can essentially be solved by considering the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Fernando Guevara Vasquez , China Mauck

In this work we consider the computational approximation of a unique continuation problem for the Helmholtz equation using a stabilized finite element method. First conditional stability estimates are derived for which, under a convexity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen
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