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Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

Consider the elastic scattering of a time-harmonic wave by multiple well separated rigid particles in two dimensions. To avoid using the complex Green's tensor of the elastic wave equation, we utilize the Helmholtz decomposition to convert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Jun Lai , Peijun Li

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

We investigate the Helmholtz equation with suitable boundary conditions and uncertainties in the wavenumber. Thus the wavenumber is modeled as a random variable or a random field. We discretize the Helmholtz equation using finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Roland Pulch , Olivier Sète

The sparse approximation of high-frequency Helmholtz-type integral operators has many important physical applications such as problems in wave propagation and wave scattering. The discrete system matrices are huge and densely populated;…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Steffen Börm , Maria Lopez-Fernandez , Stefan Sauter

Multigrid preconditioners and solvers for the indefinite Helmholtz equation suffer from non-stability of the stationary smoothers due to the indefinite spectrum of the operator. In this paper we explore GMRES as a replacement for the…

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The technique of complex scaling for time harmonic wave type equations relies on a complex coordinate stretching to generate exponentially decaying solutions. In this work, we use a Galerkin method with ansatz functions with infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Lothar Nannen , Markus Wess

The multigrid algorithm is a multilevel approach to accelerate the numerical solution of discretized differential equations in physical problems involving long-range interactions. Multiresolution analysis of wavelet theory provides an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yesilleten , T. A. Arias

The purpose of this research is to describe an efficient iterative method suitable for obtaining high accuracy solutions to high frequency time-harmonic scattering problems. The method allows for both refinement of local polynomial degree…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ryan Galagusz , Steve McFee

We examine the use of a two-level deflation preconditioner combined with GMRES to locally solve the subdomain systems arising from applying domain decomposition methods to Helmholtz problems. Our results show that the direct solution method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Niall Bootland , Vandana Dwarka , Pierre Jolivet , Victorita Dolean , Cornelis Vuik

The Helmholtz equation is notoriously difficult to solve with standard numerical methods, increasingly so, in fact, at higher frequencies. Controllability methods instead transform the problem back to the time-domain, where they seek the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Marcus J. Grote , Frédéric Nataf , Jet Hoe Tang , Pierre-Henri Tournier

In this paper we analyse the Waveholtz method, a time-domain iterative method for solving the Helmholtz iteration, in the constant-coefficient case in all of $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that the difference between a Waveholtz iterate and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Olof Runborg , Elliot Backman

We present a novel differentiable grid-based representation for efficiently solving differential equations (DEs). Widely used architectures for neural solvers, such as sinusoidal neural networks, are coordinate-based MLPs that are both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Navami Kairanda , Shanthika Naik , Marc Habermann , Avinash Sharma , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

We propose a hybrid approach to solve the high-frequency Helmholtz equation with point source terms in smooth heterogeneous media. The method is based on the ray-based finite element method (ray-FEM), whose original version can not handle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Jun Fang , Jianliang Qian , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Hongkai Zhao

In this paper we consider a class of robust multilevel precontioners for the Helmholtz equation with high wave number. The key idea in this work is to use the continuous interior penalty finite element methods (CIP-FEM) studied in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-26 Huangxin Chen , Haijun Wu , Xuejun Xu

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

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 present a new solver for nonlinear parabolic problems that is L-stable and achieves high order accuracy in space and time. The solver is built by first constructing a single-dimensional heat equation solver that uses fast O(N)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Matthew F. Causley , Hana Cho , Andrew J. Christlieb , David C. Seal

This manuscript presents an efficient boundary integral equation technique for solving two-dimensional Helmholtz problems defined in the half-plane bounded by an infinite, periodic curve with Neumann boundary conditions and an aperiodic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Riley Fisher , Fruzsina Agocs , Adrianna Gillman

Efficient numerical solution of the acoustic Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media remains challenging, particularly for large-scale problems with spatially-varying density - a limitation that restricts applications in biomedical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Antonio Stanziola , Simon R. Arridge , Bradley E. Treeby , Benjamin T. Cox