Finite-element solution of nonlinear time-dependent exterior wave problems

DOI10.1006/JCPH.1998.9999MaRDI QIDQ1286968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Givoli, Igor Patlashenko

Publication date 17 October 1999

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1998.9999

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet-to-Neumann boundary conditionexterior problemsfinite elementKlein-Gordon equationNewton iterationnonlinear time-dependent exterior wave problemsnonlinear wave equationnumerical results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

Review text

A finite element scheme is devised for the solution of nonlinear time-dependent exterior wave problems. The two-dimensional nonlinear scalar (Klein-Gordon) wave equation is taken as a model to illustrate the method. The governing equation is first discretized in time, leading to a time-stepping scheme, where a nonlinear exterior elliptic problem has to be solved in each time step. An artificial boundary \({\mathcal B}\) is introduced, which bounds the computational domain \(\Omega \), and a simple-iteration procedure is used to linearize the problem in the infinite domain outside \({\mathcal B}\). This enables the derivation of a Dirichlet-to-Neumann boundary condition on \({\mathcal B}\). Finite element discretization and Newton iteration are finally employed to solve the problem in \(\Omega \). The computational aspects of this method are discussed. Numerical results are presented for the nonlinear wave equation, whose solutions may blow up in a finite time under certain conditions, and it is shown that the behavior of the solution predicted by theory is captured by the scheme.

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