Energy decay and stability of a perfectly matched layer for the wave equation (Q2291909)

The authors develop the perfectly matched layer approach proposed in the papers [\textit{M. J. Grote} and \textit{I. Sim}, ``Efficient PML for the wave equation'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1001.0319}; ``Perfectly matched layer for the second-order wave equation'', in: Proceedings of the ninth international conference on numerical aspects of wave propagation, WAVES 2009. 370--371 (2009)]. In the present paper, the authors consider the wave equation in its standard second-order matrix form in a domain surrounded by a perfectly matched layer. On the outer boundary the homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann conditions are imposed. The authors prove that the corresponding energy functional in \(L_2\) is a nonincreasing function of time for continuous and discrete formulations with constant damping coefficients. Numerical results validate the theory.