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We study an embedded Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin method for the Helmholtz equation. The method starts from a polynomial DG space and enforces the Trefftz property through local constraints, avoiding an explicit construction of Trefftz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Paul Stocker , Igor Voulis

We propose a Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin (TDG) method for the approximation of plane wave scattering by periodic diffraction gratings, modelled by the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. The periodic obstacle may include penetrable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Armando Maria Monforte , Andrea Moiola

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

A new space-time discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method utilising special Trefftz polynomial basis functions is proposed and fully analysed for the scalar wave equation in a second order formulation. The dG method considered is motivated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Lehel Banjai , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Oluwaseun Lijoka

We introduce a space-time Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin method for the first-order transient acoustic wave equations in arbitrary space dimensions, extending the one dimensional scheme of Kretzschmar et al. (2016, IMA J. Numer. Anal., 36,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Andrea Moiola , Ilaria Perugia

We give a novel convergence theory for two-level hybrid Schwarz domain-decomposition (DD) methods for finite-element discretisations of the high-frequency Helmholtz equation. This theory gives sufficient conditions for the preconditioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

The aim of this work is to consider multiscale algorithms for solving PDEs with Galerkin methods on bounded domains. We provide results on convergence and condition numbers. We show how to handle PDEs with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-08 Andrew Chernih , Quoc Thong Le Gia

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

We present a space-time Trefftz discontinuous Galerkin method for approximating the acoustic wave equation semi-explicitly on tent pitched meshes. DG Trefftz methods use discontinuous test and trial functions, which solve the wave equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Ilaria Perugia , Joachim Schöberl , Paul Stocker , Christoph Wintersteiger

We present a Trefftz-type finite element method on meshes consisting of curvilinear polygons. Local basis functions are computed using integral equation techniques that allow for the efficient and accurate evaluation of quantities needed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Akash Anand , Jeffrey S. Ovall , Samuel Reynolds , Steffen Weißer

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

Global radial basis function (RBF) collocation methods with inifinitely smooth basis functions for partial differential equations (PDEs) work in general geometries, and can have exponential convergence properties for smooth solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-31 Elisabeth Larsson , Ulrika Sundin

This paper contains construction and analysis a finite element approximation for convection dominated diffusion problems with full coefficient matrix on general simplicial partitions in $R^d$, $d=2,3$. This construction is quite close to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-07 Raytcho D. Lazarov , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

In this paper we are concerned with Trefftz discretizations of the time-dependent linear wave equation in anisotropic media in arbitrary space dimensional domains $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d~ (d\in \mathbb{N})$. We propose two variants of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Long Yuan

A discretization scheme for variable coefficient elliptic PDEs in the plane is presented. The scheme is based on high-order Gaussian quadratures and is designed for problems with smooth solutions, such as scattering problems involving soft…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We present a space-time ultra-weak discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the linear Schr\"odinger equation with variable potential. The proposed method is well-posed and quasi-optimal in mesh-dependent norms for very general discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Sergio Gómez , Andrea Moiola

We present a novel high-order accurate nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for solving nonlinear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) on fully unstructured three-dimensional polyhedral meshes. A mesh generator is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Sixtine Michel , Lorenzo Diazzi , Walter Boscheri

We show how a Trefftz Discontinuous Galerkin (TDG) method for the displacement form of the Helmholtz equation can be used to approximate problems having a generalized impedance boundary condition (GIBC) involving surface derivatives of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Shelvean Kapita , Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas

This paper introduces a novel meshfree methodology based on Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) approximations for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on surfaces of codimension 1 embedded in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Víctor Bayona , Argyrios Petras , Cécile Piret , Steven J. Ruuth

In this paper, we introduce a multiscale framework based on adaptive edge basis functions to solve second-order linear elliptic PDEs with rough coefficients. One of the main results is that we prove the proposed multiscale method achieves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Yifan Chen , Thomas Y. Hou , Yixuan Wang