Clustering/Distribution Analysis and Preconditioned Krylov Solvers for the Approximated Helmholtz Equation and Fractional Laplacian in the Case of Complex-Valued, Unbounded Variable Coefficient Wave Number μ

We consider the Helmholtz equation and the fractional Laplacian in the case of the complex-valued unbounded variable coefficient wave number ðœ‡, approximated by finite differences. In a recent analysis, singular value clustering and eigenvalue clustering have been proposed for a ðœ preconditioning when the variable coefficient wave number 𜇠is uniformly bounded. Here, we extend the analysis to the unbounded case by focusing on the case of a power singularity. Several numerical experiments concerning the spectral behavior and convergence of the related preconditioned GMRES are presented.