Exact nonreflecting boundary conditions for exterior wave equation problems (Q2815258)

The primary considered problem is a wave equation defined on the exterior of a bounded two-dimensional domain. Under a proper reformulation, the wave equation may be transformed into the Helmholtz equation and this problem is considered as well. In order to solve the problem numerically, an artificial boundary is introduced and a non-reflecting condition is imposed on this boundary and it is discretized by applying a collocation method. The obtained domains do not have to be convex. The non-reflecting boundary conditions are defined through the boundary integral equations. These conditions are usually combined with finite element methods. However, the authors propose numerical method which allows finite difference scheme as well. Moreover, some of the parameters can be calculated simultaneously and the proposed approach aims a significant reduction of the computational cost needed for obtaining an approximate solution. The CPU time can be reduced even more is a chosen artificial boundary is a circle and a suitable partition is employed. The authors derive error bounds regarding numerical solutions and provide a sample of numerical results, including error behaviour and CPU time, where the proposed method is compared to the relevant existing schemes and (nearly) optimal solutions.