A comparison of numerical collocation and variational procedures to the hypersingular acoustic integral operator (Q686926)

The authors present comparative applications of the collocation boundary element method and the variational method to the solution of the three- dimensional thin shell acoustic problem. In the boundary integral formulation of this problem a hypersingular integral operator appears that makes the implementation of the collocation method difficult. The authors propose their new way how to overcome these difficulties to still achieve accurate numerical results.