Analysis of continuous formulations underlying the computation of time- harmonic acoustics in exterior domains (Q1202717)

This paper reviews uniqueness properties of the solutions of boundary integral equations and analyses formulations for domain-based computations which impose a relation between the function and its normal derivative on an artificial boundary. The \(DtN\) formulation possesses non-reflective boundary conditions and gives rise to exact solutions but the practical implementation is often truncated. The truncated operator fails to inhibit reflection completely, resulting in loss of uniqueness, but simple expressions that determine a sufficient number of terms in the operator for unique solutions at any given wave number are derived in this paper.