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We propose an iterative solution method for the 3D high-frequency Helmholtz equation that exploits a contour integral formulation of spectral projectors. In this framework, the solution in certain invariant subspaces is approximated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Xiao Liu , Yuanzhe Xi , Yousef Saad , Maarten V. de Hoop

An efficient $hp$-multigrid scheme is presented for local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) discretizations of elliptic problems, formulated around the idea of separately coarsening the underlying discrete gradient and divergence operators. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Daniel Fortunato , Chris H. Rycroft , Robert Saye

This paper presents an efficient parallel direct algorithm with near-optimal complexity for the compact fourth and sixth-order approximation of the three-dimensional Helmholtz equations [1] with the problem coefficient depending on only one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Ronald Gonzales , Yury Gryazin , Yun Teck Lee

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

We design and investigate efficient multigrid solvers for multiphase Stokes problems discretised via mixed-degree local discontinuous Galerkin methods. Using the template of a standard multigrid V-cycle, we develop a smoother analogous to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Robert I. Saye

The present work develops hybrid multigrid methods for high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Fast matrix-free operator evaluation on tensor product elements is used to devise a computationally efficient PDE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

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

Presented in this paper is a new sparse linear solver methodology motivated by multigrid principles and based around general local transformations that diagonalize a matrix while maintaining its sparsity. These transformations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan E. Moussa

A fast multigrid solver is presented for high-order accurate Stokes problems discretised by local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) methods. The multigrid algorithm consists of a simple V-cycle, using an element-wise block Gauss-Seidel smoother.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Robert Saye

The Helmholtz equation is related to seismic exploration, sonar, antennas, and medical imaging applications. It is one of the most challenging problems to solve in terms of accuracy and convergence due to the scalability issues of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Jinqiang Chen , Vandana Dwarka , Cornelis Vuik

This paper addresses several aspects of the linear Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method (HDG) for the Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary condition at high frequency. First, error estimates with explicit dependence on the wave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Bingxin Zhu , Haijun Wu

We provide an iterative solution approach for the indefinite Helmholtz equation discretised using finite elements, based upon a Hermitian Skew-Hermitian Splitting (HSS) iteration applied to the shifted operator, and prove that the iteration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Colin J Cotter , Kars Knook , Joshua Hope-Collins

We present W-cycle multigrid algorithms for the solution of the linear system of equations arising from a wide class of $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Starting from a classical framework in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-02 P. F. Antonietti , M. Sarti , M. Verani

In this paper we investigate staggered discontinuous Galerkin method for the Helmholtz equation with large wave number on general quadrilateral and polygonal meshes. The method is highly flexible by allowing rough grids such as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Lina Zhao , Eun-Jae Park , Eric Chung

The Helmholtz equation arises when modeling wave propagation in the frequency domain. The equation is discretized as an indefinite linear system, which is difficult to solve at high wave numbers. In many applications, the solution of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Eran Treister , Eldad Haber

This paper improves the convergence and robustness of a multigrid-based solver for the cross sections of the driven Schroedinger equation. Adding an Coupled Channel Correction Step (CCCS) after each multigrid (MG) V-cycle efficiently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-18 Siegfried Cools , Wim Vanroose

We present a Ritz-Galerkin discretization on sparse grids using pre-wavelets, which allows to solve elliptic differential equations with variable coefficients for dimension $d=2,3$ and higher dimensions $d>3$. The method applies multilinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Rainer Hartmann , Christoph Pflaum

This paper introduces a novel geometric multigrid solver for unstructured curved surfaces. Multigrid methods are highly efficient iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations. Despite the success in solving problems defined on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Jiayi Eris Zhang , Mirela Ben-Chen , Alec Jacobson

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

We propose the first optimal geometric multigrid solver for hybrid high-order discretizations that can handle arbitrary polytopal agglomeration hierarchies in both two and three dimensions. The key ingredient is the use of modified skeleton…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Santiago Badia , Jordi Manyer