Solvability of discrete Helmholtz equations

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRAC028MaRDI QIDQ6171572zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maximilian Bernkopf, S. Sauter, Céline Torres, Alexander Veit

Publication date 14 August 2023

Published in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02273

zbMATH Keywords

\(hp\)-finite elements\textit{a posteriori} stabilityadaptive mesh generationHelmholtz equation at high wave numberpre-asymptotic stability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems (65Nxx)

Abstract: We study the unique solvability of the discretized Helmholtz problem with Robin boundary conditions using a conforming Galerkin $hp$-finite element method. Well-posedness of the discrete equations is typically investigated by applying a compact perturbation to the continuous Helmholtz problem so that a "sufficiently rich" discretization results in a "sufficiently small" perturbation of the continuous problem and well-posedness is inherited via Fredholm's alternative. The qualitative notion "sufficiently rich", however, involves unknown constants and is only of asymptotic nature. Our paper is focussed on a fully discrete approach by mimicking the tools for proving well-posedness of the continuous problem directly on the discrete level. In this way, a computable criterion is derived which certifies discrete well-posedness without relying on an asymptotic perturbation argument. By using this novel approach we obtain a) new stability results for the $hp$-FEM for the Helmholtz problem b) examples for meshes such that the discretization becomes unstable (stiffness matrix is singular), and c) a simple checking Algorithm MOTZ "marching-of-the-zeros" which guarantees in an a posteriori way that a given mesh is certified for a stable Helmholtz discretization.

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