Applying GMRES to the Helmholtz equation with shifted Laplacian preconditioning: what is the largest shift for which wavenumber-independent convergence is …

MJ Gander, IG Graham, EA Spence - Numerische Mathematik, 2015 - Springer
There has been much recent research on preconditioning discretisations of the Helmholtz
operator Δ+ k^ 2 Δ+ k 2 (subject to suitable boundary conditions) using a discrete version of …

On stability of discretizations of the Helmholtz equation

S Esterhazy, JM Melenk - Numerical analysis of multiscale problems, 2011 - Springer
We review the stability properties of several discretizations of the Helmholtz equation at
large wavenumbers. For a model problem in a polygon, a complete k-explicit stability …

[HTML][HTML] The Helmholtz equation in heterogeneous media: a priori bounds, well-posedness, and resonances

IG Graham, OR Pembery, EA Spence - Journal of Differential Equations, 2019 - Elsevier
We consider the exterior Dirichlet problem for the heterogeneous Helmholtz equation, ie the
equation∇⋅(A∇ u)+ k 2 nu=− f where both A and n are functions of position. We prove new …

Acoustic transmission problems: wavenumber-explicit bounds and resonance-free regions

A Moiola, EA Spence - … Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 2019 - World Scientific
We consider the Helmholtz transmission problem with one penetrable star-shaped Lipschitz
obstacle. Under a natural assumption about the ratio of the wavenumbers, we prove bounds …

Is the Helmholtz equation really sign-indefinite?

A Moiola, EA Spence - Siam Review, 2014 - SIAM
The usual variational (or weak) formulations of the Helmholtz equation are sign-indefinite in
the sense that the bilinear forms cannot be bounded below by a positive multiple of the …

High-frequency bounds for the Helmholtz equation under parabolic trapping and applications in numerical analysis

SN Chandler-Wilde, EA Spence, A Gibbs… - SIAM Journal on …, 2020 - SIAM
This paper is concerned with resolvent estimates on the real axis for the Helmholtz equation
posed in the exterior of a bounded obstacle with Dirichlet boundary conditions when the …

Stability results for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with impedance boundary conditions

R Hiptmair, A Moiola, I Perugia - Mathematical Models and Methods …, 2011 - World Scientific
We consider the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with constant coefficients in a bounded,
uniformly star-shaped polyhedron. We prove wavenumber-explicit norm bounds for weak …

Trefftz-discontinuous Galerkin methods for time-harmonic wave problems

A Moiola - 2011 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Computer simulation of the propagation and interaction of linear waves is a core task in
computational science and engineering. It is fundamentally important in a wide range of …

Wavenumber-explicit analysis for the Helmholtz h-BEM: error estimates and iteration counts for the Dirichlet problem

J Galkowski, EH Müller, EA Spence - Numerische Mathematik, 2019 - Springer
We consider solving the exterior Dirichlet problem for the Helmholtz equation with the h-
version of the boundary element method (BEM) using the standard second-kind combined …

Coercivity of Combined Boundary Integral Equations in High‐Frequency Scattering

EA Spence, IV Kamotski… - … on Pure and Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We prove that the standard second‐kind integral equation formulation of the exterior
Dirichlet problem for the Helmholtz equation is coercive (ie, sign‐definite) for all smooth …