Numerical analysis of a wave equation for lossy media obeying a frequency power law

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRAB028MaRDI QIDQ5093101zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Katherine Baker, Lehel Banjai

Publication date 26 July 2022

Published in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04520

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceexistence and uniquenessfractional calculuswave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional derivatives and integrals (26A33) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Numerical integration (65D30) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05)

Abstract: We study a wave equation with a nonlocal time fractional damping term that models the effects of acoustic attenuation characterized by a frequency dependence power law. First we prove existence of a unique solution to this equation with particular attention paid to the handling of the fractional derivative. Then we derive an explicit time stepping scheme based on the finite element method in space and a combination of convolution quadrature and second order central differences in time. We conduct a full error analysis of the mixed time discretization and in turn the fully space time discretized scheme. Error estimates are given for both smooth solutions and solutions with a singularity at $t=0$ of a type that is typical for equations involving fractional time-derivatives. A number of numerical results are presented to support the error analysis.

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