A Diagonal Sweeping Domain Decomposition Method with Source Transfer for the Helmholtz Equation

A Diagonal Sweeping Domain Decomposition Method with Source Transfer for the Helmholtz Equation

Year:    2021

Author:    Wei Leng, Lili Ju

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 29 (2021), Iss. 2 : pp. 357–398

Abstract

In this paper, we propose and test a novel diagonal sweeping domain decomposition method (DDM) with source transfer for solving the high-frequency Helmholtz equation in $\mathbb{R}^n$. In the method the computational domain is partitioned into overlapping checkerboard subdomains for source transfer with the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique, then a set of diagonal sweeps over the subdomains are specially designed to solve the system efficiently. The method improves the additive overlapping DDM [43] and the L-sweeps method [50] by employing a more efficient subdomain solving order. We show that the method achieves the exact solution of the global PML problem with $2^n$ sweeps in the constant medium case. Although the sweeping usually implies sequential subdomain solves, the number of sequential steps required for each sweep in the method is only proportional to the $n$-th root of the number of subdomains when the domain decomposition is quasi-uniform with respect to all directions, thus it is very suitable for parallel computing of the Helmholtz problem with multiple right-hand sides through the pipeline processing. Extensive numerical experiments in two and three dimensions are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2020-0169

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 29 (2021), Iss. 2 : pp. 357–398

Published online:    2021-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    42

Keywords:    Helmholtz equation domain decomposition method diagonal sweeping perfectly matched layer source transfer parallel computing.

Author Details

Wei Leng

Lili Ju

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