Analysis and application of an overlapped FEM-BEM for wave propagation in unbounded and heterogeneous media (Q2238822)

The authors are concerned with an adaptive coupling FEM-BEM in order to solve a Helmholtz acoustic/electromagnetic 2D wave propagation problem with a bounded heterogeneous region. First they present the Helmholtz model and an equivalent decomposition formulation. Then they accomplish a numerical analysis of the FEM-BEM algorithm establishing optimal order convergence of the hybridized numerical solution. On the bounded part of the domain they approximate the solution by a FEM with classical continuous piecewise polynomials on triangular meshes. On the other hand a high-order Nyström BEM is used to compute the scattered wave in the unbounded part of the domain. The solutions are coupled by requiring the coinciding in the two artificial boundaries that ensures the matching of FEM and BEM solutions in the common region of the partition of domain. Three distinct sets of experiments are carried out, the most challenging being the algorithm for multiple-particle Janus-type configurations with non-smooth solutions.