Boundary integral approximation of a heat-diffusion problem in time-harmonic regime (Q2492796)

The paper is concerned with study of the numerical approximation of Helmholtz transmission problems in the half plane with an homogeneous Neumann boundary condition on the line that separates the medium from the exterior. The authors analyse invertibility of the system of integral equations that appears when appropriate single layer potentials are proposed for the solution of the transmission problem and give necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence of Petrov-Galerkin discretizations of boundary integral system. Finally, the authors propose a fully discrete version of the numerical method with periodic splines of degree zero and show some numerical experiments.