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Perfectly matched layers in time domain. A simple two-dimensional error analysis

Analysis of PDEs 2025-03-11 v1

Abstract

Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) has become a very common method for the numerical approximation of wave and wave-like equations on unbounded domains. This technique allows one to obtain accurate solutions while working on a finite computational domain, and the technique is relatively simple to implement. Results concerning the accuracy of the PML method have been obtained, but mostly with regard problems at a fixed frequency. In this paper we provide very explicit time-domain bounds on the accuracy of PML for the two-dimensional wave equation and illustrate our conclusions with some numerical examples.

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@article{arxiv.2503.06656,
  title  = {Perfectly matched layers in time domain. A simple two-dimensional error analysis},
  author = {Kurt Bryan and Michael S. Vogelius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06656},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 8 figures

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