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The Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) is a popular tool to solve Laplace and Helmholtz boundary value problems. Its main drawback is that it often leads to ill-conditioned systems of equations. In this paper we investigate for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 A. H. Barnett , T. Betcke

Over the last ten years, results from [Melenk-Sauter, 2010], [Melenk-Sauter, 2011], [Esterhazy-Melenk, 2012], and [Melenk-Parsania-Sauter, 2013] decomposing high-frequency Helmholtz solutions into "low"- and "high"-frequency components have…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Jeffrey Galkowski , David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence , Jared Wunsch

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

We present a solver for the 2D high-frequency Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous acoustic media, with online parallel complexity that scales optimally as $\mathcal{O}(\frac{N}{L})$, where $N$ is the number of volume unknowns, and $L$ is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Laurent Demanet

This paper presents an efficient Krylov subspace iterative solver for the three-dimensional (3D) Helmholtz equation with non-constant coefficients and absorbing boundary conditions, combining high-resolution compact schemes with low-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yury Gryazin , Ron Gonzales , Xiaoye Sherry Li

We present a fast direct solver for the volume scattering problem of the Helmholtz equation. The algorithm is faster than existing methods. Moreover, discretization for our method is much simpler and more accurate than that for finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-11 Yu Chen

We present a recursive algorithm for multi-coefficient inversion in nonlinear Helmholtz equations with polynomial-type nonlinearities, utilizing the linearized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map as measurement data. To achieve effective recursive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Shuai Lu , Boxi Xu

High-frequency issues have been remarkably challenges in numerical methods for partial differential equations. In this paper, a learning based numerical method (LbNM) is proposed for Helmholtz equation with high frequency. The main novelty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Yu Chen , Jin Cheng , Tingyue Li , Yun Miao

This paper presents a scalable multigrid preconditioner targeting large-scale systems arising from discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) discretizations of high-frequency wave operators. This work is built on previously developed multigrid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Jacob Badger , Stefan Henneking , Socratis Petrides , Leszek Demkowicz

This paper discusses a fast direct solver using boundary integral equations for Helmholtz transmission problems involving multiple inclusions in two dimensions. Efficiently addressing scattering problems in the presence of numerous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yasuhiro Matsumoto

This paper is concerned with developing efficient numerical methods for acoustic wave scattering in random media which can be expressed as random perturbations of homogeneous media. We first analyze the random Helmholtz problem by deriving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-01 Xiaobing Feng , Junshan Lin , Cody Lorton

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

In this work we present a variant of the fast multipole method (FMM) for efficiently evaluating standard layer potentials on geometries with complex coordinates in two and three dimensions. The complex scaled boundary integral method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Tristan Goodwill , Leslie Greengard , Jeremy Hoskins , Manas Rachh , Yuguan Wang

In this paper, we present a fast boundary integral method accelerated by the fast multipole method (FMM) for acoustic wave scattering governed by the scalar Helmholtz equation in multi-layered two-dimensional media. Multiple scatterers are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Linfeng Xia , Heng Yuan , Bo Wang , Wei Cai

The goal of this paper is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from complex-valued scattered wave field by solving a 3D coefficient inverse problem for the Helmholtz equation at multi-frequencies. The data are generated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen , Hui Liu

Evaluation of pair potentials is critical in a number of areas of physics. The classicalN-body problem has its root in evaluating the Laplace potential, and has spawned tree-algorithms, the fast multipole method (FMM), as well as kernel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Michael P. Lingg , Stephen M. Hughey , Hasan Metin Aktulga , Balasubramaniam Shanker

We present a fast solver for the 3D high-frequency Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous, constant density, acoustic media. The solver is based on the method of polarized traces, coupled with distributed linear algebra libraries and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez , Adrien Scheuer , Russell J. Hewett , Laurent Demanet

Solving the indefinite Helmholtz equation is not only crucial for the understanding of many physical phenomena but also represents an outstandingly-difficult benchmark problem for the successful application of numerical methods. Here we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-29 Jonas Schmitt , Harald Köstler

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

The Helmholtz equation arises in many applications, such as seismic and medical imaging. These application are characterized by the need to propagate many wavelengths through an inhomogeneous medium. The typical size of the problems in 3D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Tristan van Leeuwen