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Sweeping preconditioners for stratified media in the presence of reflections

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  • Janosch Preuß

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung)

  • Thorsten Hohage

    (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
    Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik)

  • Christoph Lehrenfeld

    (Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik)

Abstract

In this paper we consider sweeping preconditioners for time harmonic wave propagation in stratified media, especially in the presence of reflections. In the most famous class of sweeping preconditioners Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators for half-space problems are approximated through absorbing boundary conditions. In the presence of reflections absorbing boundary conditions are not accurate resulting in an unsatisfactory performance of these sweeping preconditioners. We explore the potential of using more accurate Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators within the sweep. To this end, we make use of the separability of the equation for the background model. While this improves the accuracy of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator, we find both from numerical tests and analytical arguments that it is very sensitive to perturbations in the presence of reflections. This implies that even if accurate approximations to Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators can be devised for a stratified medium, sweeping preconditioners are limited to very small perturbations.

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  • Janosch Preuß & Thorsten Hohage & Christoph Lehrenfeld, 2020. "Sweeping preconditioners for stratified media in the presence of reflections," Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Springer, vol. 1(4), pages 1-17, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:pardea:v:1:y:2020:i:4:d:10.1007_s42985-020-00019-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s42985-020-00019-x
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