The solution of the scalar wave equation in the exterior of a sphere

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.05.031zbMATH Open1351.35091arXiv1308.0643OpenAlexW2011411952MaRDI QIDQ728656FDOQ728656

Shidong Jiang, Leslie Greengard, Thomas Hagstrom

Publication date: 20 December 2016

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

Abstract: We derive new, explicit representations for the solution to the scalar wave equation in the exterior of a sphere, subject to either Dirichlet or Robin boundary conditions. Our formula leads to a stable and high-order numerical scheme that permits the evaluation of the solution at an arbitrary target, without the use of a spatial grid and without numerical dispersion error. In the process, we correct some errors in the analytic literature concerning the asymptotic behavior of the logarithmic derivative of the spherical modified Hankel function. We illustrate the performance of the method with several numerical examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0643

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical stabilityscatteringseparation of variableswave equationtime-domain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spherical harmonics (33C55) Series solutions to PDEs (35C10) Wave equation (35L05) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15)

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