A high frequency boundary element method for scattering by a class of nonconvex obstacles

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DOI10.1007/S00211-014-0648-7zbMATH Open1314.65154arXiv1401.2817OpenAlexW1985048099MaRDI QIDQ2017577FDOQ2017577

S. Langdon, A. Twigger, David P. Hewett, Simon N. Chandler-Wilde

Publication date: 23 March 2015

Published in: Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we propose and analyse a hybrid numerical-asymptotic boundary element method for the solution of problems of high frequency acoustic scattering by a class of sound-soft nonconvex polygons. The approximation space is enriched with carefully chosen oscillatory basis functions; these are selected via a study of the high frequency asymptotic behaviour of the solution. We demonstrate via a rigorous error analysis, supported by numerical examples, that to achieve any desired accuracy it is sufficient for the number of degrees of freedom to grow only in proportion to the logarithm of the frequency as the frequency increases, in contrast to the at least linear growth required by conventional methods. This appears to be the first such numerical analysis result for any problem of scattering by a nonconvex obstacle. Our analysis is based on new frequency-explicit bounds on the normal derivative of the solution on the boundary and on its analytic continuation into the complex plane.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2817





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