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A numerical method for scattering problems with unbounded interfaces

Numerical Analysis 2024-11-19 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We introduce a new class of computationally tractable scattering problems in unbounded domains, which we call decomposable problems. In these decomposable problems, the computational domain can be split into a finite collection of subdomains in which the scatterer has a "simple" structure. A subdomain is simple if the domain Green's function for this subdomain is either available analytically or can be computed numerically with arbitrary accuracy by a tractable method. These domain Green's functions are then used to reformulate the scattering problem as a system of boundary integral equations on the union of the subdomain boundaries. This reformulation gives a practical numerical method, as the resulting integral equations can then be solved, to any desired degree of accuracy, by using coordinate complexification over a finite interval, and standard discretization techniques.

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@article{arxiv.2411.11204,
  title  = {A numerical method for scattering problems with unbounded interfaces},
  author = {Tristan Goodwill and Charles L. Epstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11204},
  year   = {2024}
}
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