Higher-order time domain boundary elements for elastodynamics: graded meshes and \textit{hp} versions (Q6165228)

The authors consider the elastodynamic equation in the exterior of a polyhedral domain or a Screen, where the solution exhibits singular behavior from the corners and edges. They obtain a detailed expansion of the singularities of the solution for the model 3d geometries of a wedge and a cone, as well as 2d polygonal domains. Such expansion of the singularities implies quasi-optimal estimates for piecewise polynomial approximations of the Dirichlet trace of the solution and the traction. They then apply their obtained results to hp and graded versions of the time domain boundary element method for the weakly singular and the hypersingular integral equations. Extensive numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results for the Dirichlet and Neumann problems for screens and for polygonal domains in two dimensions. Numerical results exhibit the expected quasi-optimal convergence rates and the singular behavior of the solutions.