Superposition of Multi-Valued Solutions in High Frequency Wave Dynamics
Hailiang Liu1
and Zhongming Wang1
| (1) |
Mathematics Department, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA |
Received: 3 February 2007 Accepted: 13 February 2008 Published online: 11 March 2008
Abstract The weakly coupled WKB system captures high frequency wave dynamics in many applications. For such a system a level set method
framework has been recently developed to compute multi-valued solutions to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and evaluate position
density accordingly. In this paper we propose two approaches for computing multi-valued quantities related to density, momentum
as well as energy. Within this level set framework we show that physical observables evaluated in Jin et al. (J. Comput. Phys.
210(2):497–518, [
2005]; J. Comput. Phys. 205(1):222–241, [
2005]) are simply the superposition of their multi-valued correspondents. A series of numerical tests is performed to compute
multi-valued quantities and validate the established superposition properties.
Keywords Level set method - WKB system - Multi-valued solution - Superposition
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