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

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2014.05.031MaRDI QIDQ728656zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shidong Jiang, Leslie Greengard, Thomas Hagstrom

Publication date 20 December 2016

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

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

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)

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.

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