ERROR ESTIMATION FOR NUMERICAL METHODS USING THE ULTRA WEAK VARIATIONAL FORMULATION IN MODEL OF NEAR FIELD SCATTERING PROBLEM

In this paper, we investigate the use of ultra weak variational formulation to solve a wave scattering problem in near field optics. In order to capture the sub-scale features of waves, we utilize evanescent wave functions together with plane wave functions to approximate the local properties of the field. We analyze the global convergence and give an error estimation of the method. Numerical examples are also presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the strategy.

Wavefield reconstruction inversion with weaktotal-variation constraint based on first arrival traveltime tomography

The objective function of full waveform inversion is a strong nonlinear function,the inversion process is not unique,and it is easy to fall into local minimum.Firstly,in the process of wavefield reconstruction,the wave equation is introduced into the construction of objective function as a penalty term to broaden the search space of solution and reduce the risk of falling into local minimum.In addition,there is no need to calculate the adjoint wavefield in the inversion process,which can significantly improve the calculation efficiency;Secondly,considering that the total variation constraint can effectively reconstruct the discontinuous interface in the velocity model,this paper introduces the weak total variation constraint to avoid the excessive smooth estimation of the model under the strong total variation constraint.The disadvantage of this strategy is that it is highly dependent on the initial model.In view of this,this paper takes the long wavelength initial model obtained by first arrival traveltime tomography as a prior model constraint,and proposes a weak total variation constrained wavefield reconstruction inversion method based on first arrival traveltime tomography.Numerical experimental results show that the new method reduces the dependence on the initial model,the interface description is more accurate,the error is reduced,and the iterative convergence efficiency is significantly improved.

TheUltraWeakVariational FormulationUsing Bessel Basis Functions

We investigate the ultra weak variational formulation(UWVF)of the 2-D Helmholtz equation using a new choice of basis functions.Traditionally the UWVF basis functions are chosen to be plane waves.Here,we instead use first kind Bessel functions.We compare the performance of the two bases.Moreover,we show that it is possible to use coupled plane wave and Bessel bases in the same mesh.As test cases we shall consider propagating plane and evanescent waves in a rectangular domain and a singular 2-D Helmholtz problem in an L-shaped domain.

A Solver for Helmholtz System Generated by the Discretization of Wave Shape Functions

An interesting discretization method for Helmholtz equations was introduced in B.Despres[1].This method is based on the ultra weak variational formulation(UWVF)and the wave shape functions,which are exact solutions of the governing Helmholtz equation.In this paper we are concerned with fast solver for the system generated by the method in[1].We propose a new preconditioner for such system,which can be viewed as a combination between a coarse solver and the block diagonal preconditioner introduced in[13].In our numerical experiments,this preconditioner is applied to solve both two-dimensional and three-dimensional Helmholtz equations,and the numerical results illustrate that the new preconditioner is much more efficient than the original block diagonal preconditioner.