High-order boundary integral equation solution of high frequency wave scattering from obstacles in an unbounded linearly stratified medium

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.05.034zbMATH Open1349.76415arXiv1409.7423OpenAlexW2165171858MaRDI QIDQ350175FDOQ350175

Alex H. Barnett, Bradley J. Nelson, J. Matthew Mahoney

Publication date: 5 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply boundary integral equations for the first time to the two-dimensional scattering of time-harmonic waves from a smooth obstacle embedded in a continuously-graded unbounded medium. In the case we solve the square of the wavenumber (refractive index) varies linearly in one coordinate, i.e. $(Delta+E+x_2)u(x_1,x_2)=0$ where $E$ is a constant; this models quantum particles of fixed energy in a uniform gravitational field, and has broader applications to stratified media in acoustics, optics and seismology. We evaluate the fundamental solution efficiently with exponential accuracy via numerical saddle-point integration, using the truncated trapezoid rule with typically 100 nodes, with an effort that is independent of the frequency parameter $E$. By combining with high-order Nystrom quadrature, we are able to solve the scattering from obstacles 50 wavelengths across to 11 digits of accuracy in under a minute on a desktop or laptop.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7423

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zbMATH Keywords

integral equationgravityscatteringquantumrefractionacousticgraded-indexHelmholtz

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Boundary element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M15)

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