Hypersingular boundary integral equations for radiation and scattering of elastic waves in three dimensions (Q1309655): Difference between revisions

This paper is an extension of the boundary integral equation (BIE) formulation developed by the authors recently for three-dimensional acoustic problems [Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 96, No. 2, 271-287 (1992; Zbl 0754.76072)] to radiation and scattering of elastic waves. They employ the \textit{A. J. Burton} and \textit{G. F. Miller} [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 323, 201-210 (1971; Zbl 0235.65080)] composite BIE formulation using a linear combination of the conventional BIE and the hypersingular BIE to furnish unique solutions at all frequencies for external elastic wave problems. The authors derive systematically a weakly singular form of the hypersingular BIE before any discretization. The derived BIE are applied to time-harmonic scattering from a traction- free spherical void which is impinged upon by a plane longitudinal incident wave. Since the regularized hypersingular BIE requires the boundary density of the displacement vector to be \(C^ 1\) continuous, the authors employ \(C^ 1\) continuous elements, namely, the Overhauser elements and the non-conforming quadratic elements. Analysis of the numerical results is presented.