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Time-harmonic solutions to the wave equation can be computed in the frequency or in the time domain. In the frequency domain, one solves a discretized Helmholtz equation, while in the time domain, the periodic solutions to a discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Christiaan C. Stolk

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

Many problems in electrical engineering or fluid mechanics can be modeled by parabolic-elliptic interface problems, where the domain for the exterior elliptic problem might be unbounded. A possibility to solve this class of problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Christoph Erath , Robert Schorr

We present a wavenumber-explicit convergence analysis of the hp finite element method applied to a class of heterogeneous Helmholtz problems with piecewise analytic coefficients at large wavenumber $k$. Our analysis covers the heterogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-05 M. Bernkopf , T. Chaumont-Frelet , J. M. Melenk

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

We consider interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of time-harmonic wave propagation problems modeled by the Helmholtz equation, and derive novel a priori and a posteriori estimates. Our analysis classically relies on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-23 T. Chaumont-Frelet

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

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

In this paper, we consider the constrained energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM) with discontinuous Galerkin (DG) coupling for the linear elasticity equations in highly heterogeneous and high contrast…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Zhongqian Wang , Shubin Fu , Eric Chung

The $h$-version of the finite-element method ($h$-FEM) applied to the high-frequency Helmholtz equation has been a classic topic in numerical analysis since the 1990s. It is now rigorously understood that (using piecewise polynomials of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Martin Averseng , Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

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

We propose and analyze a space-time finite element method for Westervelt's quasilinear model of ultrasound waves in second-order formulation. The method combines conforming finite element spatial discretizations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Sergio Gómez , Vanja Nikolić

We develop a sparse hierarchical $hp$-finite element method ($hp$-FEM) for the Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients posed on a two-dimensional disk or annulus. The mesh is an inner disk cell (omitted if on an annulus domain) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Sheehan Olver

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 address the spatial discretization of an evolution problem arising from the coupling of viscoelastic and acoustic wave propagation phenomena by employing a discontinuous Galerkin scheme on polygonal and polyhedral meshes. The coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Paola F. Antonietti , Francesco Bonaldi , Ilario Mazzieri

In this paper a discretization based on discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for an elliptic two-dimensional problem with discontinuous coefficients is considered. The problem is posed on a polygonal region $\Omega$ which is a union of $N$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Maksymilian Dryja , Juan Galvis , Marcus Sarkis

A nonlinear Helmholtz equation (NLH) with high wave number and Sommerfeld radiation condition is approximated by the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique and then discretized by the linear finite element method (FEM).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Run Jiang , Yonglin Li , Haijun Wu , Jun Zou

We study the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the spatial discretization of time fractional diffusion models with Caputo derivative of order $0<\alpha<1$. For each time $t \in [0,T]$, the HDG approximations are taken to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Kassem Mustapha , Maher Nour , Bernardo Cockburn

We study the numerical approximation by space-time finite element methods of a multi-physics system coupling hyperbolic elastodynamics with parabolic transport and modeling poro- and thermoelasticity. The equations are rewritten as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Markus Bause , Mathias Anselmann , Uwe Köcher , Florin A. Radu

We present the analysis for an $hp$ weak Galerkin-FEM for singularly perturbed reaction-convection-diffusion problems in one-dimension. Under the analyticity of the data assumption, we establish robust exponential convergence, when the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Torsten Linß , Christos Xenophontos