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Numerical Solution of Acoustic Scattering by an Adaptive DtN Finite Element Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2015

Xue Jiang*
Affiliation:
LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
Peijun Li*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907, USA
Weiying Zheng*
Affiliation:
LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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Abstract

Consider the acoustic wave scattering by an impenetrable obstacle in two dimensions, where the wave propagation is governed by the Helmholtz equation. The scattering problem is modeled as a boundary value problem over a bounded domain. Based on the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) operator, a transparent boundary condition is introduced on an artificial circular boundary enclosing the obstacle. An adaptive finite element based on a posterior error estimate is presented to solve the boundary value problem with a nonlocal DtN boundary condition. Numerical experiments are included to compare with the perfectly matched layer (PML) method to illustrate the competitive behavior of the proposed adaptive method.

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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2013

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