Theoretical aspects of the application of convolution quadrature to scattering of acoustic waves (Q2391124)

The authors address several theoretical questions related to the numerical approximation of the scattering of acoustic waves in two or three dimensions by penetrable non-homogeneous obstacles using convolution quadrature (CQ) techniques for the time variable and coupled boundary element method/finite element method for the space variable. The application of CQ to waves requires polynomial type bounds for operators related to the operator \(\Delta-s^2\) in the right half complex plane. They propose a new systematic way of dealing with this problem, both at the continuous and semidiscrete-in-space cases and apply the technique to three different situations: scattering by a group of sound-soft and - hard obstacles, by homogeneous and non-homogeneous obstacles.