Accelerating Fast Multipole Methods for the Helmholtz Equation at Low Frequencies

  • Authors:
  • Leslie Greengard;Jingfang Huang;Vladimir Rokhlin;Stephen Wandzura

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Computational Science & Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The authors present the analytic foundations for a new version of the fast multipole method for the scalar Helmholtz equation in the low-frequency regime. The computational cost of existing FMM implementations is dominated by the expense of translating far-field partial wave expansions to local ones. By developing a new expansion in plane waves, the authors can diagonalize these translation operators. Their approach combines evanescent and propagating plane waves to reduce the computational cost of FMM implementation.