A plane wave virtual element method for the Helmholtz problem

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Abstract: We introduce and analyze a virtual element method (VEM) for the Helmholtz problem with approximating spaces made of products of low order VEM functions and plane waves. We restrict ourselves to the 2D Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary conditions on the whole domain boundary. The main ingredients of the plane wave VEM scheme are: i) a low frequency space made of VEM functions, whose basis functions are not explicitly computed in the element interiors; ii) a proper local projection operator onto the high-frequency space, made of plane waves; iii) an approximate stabilization term. A convergence result for the h-version of the method is proved, and numerical results testing its performance on general polygonal meshes are presented.


Plane wave functions are a particular case of Trefftz functions for Helmholtz problem. As a first construction of a plane-virtual element method (PW-VEM), the authrs focus here on the 2D Helmholtz problem with impedance boundary conditions on the whole domain boundary. On polygonal meshes, these basis functions are products of low order VEM functions associated to the mesh vertices, multiplied by a linear combination of \(p\) plane waves centered at the corresponding vertices. The analyzed of the \(h\)-version of the method is given in an abstract form. Some numerical tests are presented.



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