Memory‐efficient compression of 𝒟ℋ2‐matrices for high‐frequency Helmholtz problems

Directional interpolation is a fast and efficient compression technique for high‐frequency Helmholtz boundary integral equations, but requires a very large amount of storage in its original form. Algebraic recompression can significantly reduce the storage requirements and speed up the solution process accordingly. During the recompression process, weight matrices are required to correctly measure the influence of different basis vectors on the final result, and for highly accurate approximations, these weight matrices require more storage than the final compressed matrix. We present a compression method for the weight matrices and demonstrate that it introduces only a controllable error to the overall approximation. Numerical experiments show that the new method leads to a significant reduction in storage requirements.