There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

https://math.berkeley.edu/~sethian/Papers/sethian.osher.88.pdf

Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations

A perfectly matched layer for the absorption of electromagnetic waves

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Conservation laws and differential equations 3. Characteristics and Riemann problems for linear hyperbolic equations 4. Finite-volume methods 5. Introduction to the CLAWPACK software 6. High resolution methods 7. Boundary conditions and ghost cells 8. Convergence, accuracy, and stability 9. Variable-coefficient linear equations 10. Other approaches to high resolution 11. Nonlinear scalar conservation laws 12. Finite-volume methods for nonlinear scalar conservation laws 13. Nonlinear systems of conservation laws 14. Gas dynamics and the Euler equations 15. Finite-volume methods for nonlinear systems 16. Some nonclassical hyperbolic problems 17. Source terms and balance laws 18. Multidimensional hyperbolic problems 19. Multidimensional numerical methods 20. Multidimensional scalar equations 21. Multidimensional systems 22. Elastic waves 23. Finite-volume methods on quadrilateral grids Bibliography Index.

https://depts.washington.edu/clawpack/book2/sample.pdf

Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA189392.pdf

Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes,II

In practical calculations, it is often essential to introduce artificial boundaries to limit the area of computation. Here we develop a systematic method for obtaining a hierarchy of local boundary conditions at these artifical boundaries. These boundary conditions not only guarantee stable difference approximations, but also minimize the (unphysical) artificial reflections that occur at the boundaries.

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Absorbing boundary conditions for the numerical simulation of waves

Boundary conditions are derived for numerical wave simulation that minimize artificial reflections from the edges of the domain of computation. In this way acoustic and elastic wave propagation in a limited area can be efficiently used to describe physical behavior in an unbounded domain. The boundary conditions are based on paraxial approximations of the scalar and elastic wave equations. They are computationally inexpensive and simple to apply, and they reduce reflections over a wide range of incident angles.

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Absorbing boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave equations

The heterogenous multiscale method (HMM) is presented as a general methodology for the efficient numerical computation of problems with multiscales and multiphysics on multigrids. Both variational and dynamic problems are considered. The method relies on an efficent coupling between the macroscopic and microscopic models. In cases when the macroscopic model is not explicity available or invalid, the microscopic solver is used to supply the necessary data for the microscopic solver. Besides unifying several existing multiscale methods such as the ab initio molecular dynamics [13], quasicontinuum methods [73,69,68] and projective methods for systems with multiscales [34,35], HMM also provides a methodology for designing new methods for a large variety of multiscale problems. A framework is presented for the analysis of the stability and accuracy of HMM. Applications to problems such as homogenization, molecular dynamics, kinetic models and interfacial dynamics are discussed.

https://www.intlpress.com/site/pub/files/_fulltext/journals/cms/2003/0001/0001/CMS-2003-0001-0001-a008.pdf

The Heterognous Multiscale Methods

A technique for developing radiating boundary conditions for artificial computational boundaries is described and applied to a class of problems typical in exploration seismology involving acoustic and elastic wave equations. First, one considers a constant coefficient scalar wave equation where the artificial boundary is one edge of a rectangular domain. By using continued fraction expansions, a systematic sequence of stable highly absorbing boundary conditions with successively better absorbing properties as the order of the boundary conditions increases is obtained. There follows a systematic derivation of a hierarchy of local radiating boundary conditions for the elastic wave equation. A theoretical procedure to guarantee stability at corners of the rectangular domain is worked out. A technique for fitting the discrete radiating boundary conditions directly to the difference scheme itself is proposed.

Radiation boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave calculations

This paper gives a systematic introduction to HMM, the heterogeneous multiscale methods, including the fundamental design principles behind the HMM philosophy and the main obstacles that have to be ...

Björn Engquist

Papers

Absorbing boundary conditions for the numerical simulation of waves

Absorbing boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave equations

The Heterognous Multiscale Methods

Radiation boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave calculations

Heterogeneous multiscale methods: A review