ForwardHelmholtz.jl swMATH ID: 46001 Software Authors: Treister, Eran; Haber, Eldad Description: Julia package ForwardHelmholtz.jl: A multigrid solver to the Helmholtz equation with a point source based on travel time and amplitude. The Helmholtz equation arises when modeling wave propagation in the frequency domain. The equation is discretized as an indefinite linear system, which is difficult to solve at high wave numbers. In many applications, the solution of the Helmholtz equation is required for a point source. In this case, it is possible to reformulate the equation as two separate equations: one for the travel time of the wave and one for its amplitude. The travel time is obtained by a solution of the factored eikonal equation, and the amplitude is obtained by solving a complex-valued advection-diffusion-reaction equation. The reformulated equation is equivalent to the original Helmholtz equation, and the differences between the numerical solutions of these equations arise only from discretization errors. We develop an efficient multigrid solver for obtaining the amplitude given the travel time, which can be efficiently computed. This approach is advantageous because the amplitude is typically smooth in this case and, hence, more suitable for multigrid solvers than the standard Helmholtz discretization. We demonstrate that our second-order advection-diffusion-reaction discretization is more accurate than the standard second-order discretization at high wave numbers, as long as there are no reflections or caustics. Moreover, we show that using our approach, the problem can be solved more efficiently than using the common shifted Laplacian multigrid approach. Homepage: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06091 Source Code: https://github.com/JuliaInv/ForwardHelmholtz.jl Dependencies: Julia Keywords: factored eikonal equation; fast marching; Helmholtz equation; multigrid; seismic modeling; shifted Laplacian Related Software: Julia; jInv Cited in: 2 Documents Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year A multigrid solver to the Helmholtz equation with a point source based on travel time and amplitude. Zbl 07031720Treister, Eran; Haber, Eldad 2019 Cited by 4 Authors 1 Haber, Eldad 1 Huang, Guangnan 1 Luo, Songting 1 Treister, Eran Cited in 2 Serials 1 Journal of Scientific Computing 1 Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications Cited in 3 Fields 2 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 1 Geophysics (86-XX) Citations by Year