This special session concerns recent advances in the numerical simulation of waves. Waves can be of different nature and related e.g. to acoustics, electromagnetic, elasticity, quantum models with many important applications (radars, seismic prospection, communication systems...). Numerous challenging and difficult questions remain opened in both the harmonic and time-domain regime concerning their numerical simulation. For example problems can be related to the complex geometry that is involved, the nature of the heterogeneous media, the highly oscillating characteristic of the solution which implies dispersion in the numerical schemes, unbounded media... The aim of this session is to bring together people interested in the wide variety of problems related to the numerical simulation of waves. In particular, talks related to the following topics will be welcome:

• formulations adapted to wave computing
• finite difference, finite element and boundary element methods
• time-domain discretizations
• treatment of unbounded media
• heterogeneous and complex media
• simulation of nonlinear wave problems
• domain decomposition methods for wave computation
• preconditioning and large scale solution of linear systems related to wave computation
• related inverse and optimization problems
• industrial applications

For specific questions regarding the scope of this session please contact the organiser:

• Prof. X. Antoine
  Nancy Université, ANR Microwave
  Institut Elie Cartan Nancy (IECN)
  Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1
  Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
  (Xavier.Antoine AT iecn.u-nancy.fr)

Please note that papers that are found to fall outside the scope of this session may be considered for other sessions.

To submit abstracts for this special session, please follow the normal abstract submission procedure but please select "ECT2012-S03" when asked "Is this paper part of a special session?"