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We present a set of well-posed constraint-preserving boundary conditions for a first-order in time, second-order in space, harmonic formulation of the Einstein equations. The boundary conditions are tested using robust stability, linear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jennifer Seiler , Bela Szilagyi , Denis Pollney , Luciano Rezzolla

We consider the numerical approximation of boundary conditions in radiative transfer problems by a perfectly matched layer approach. The main idea is to extend the computational domain by an absorbing layer and to use an appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Herbert Egger , Matthias Schlottbom

We consider approximating the solution of the Helmholtz exterior Dirichlet problem for a nontrapping obstacle, with boundary data coming from plane-wave incidence, by the solution of the corresponding boundary value problem where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Jeffrey Galkowski , David Lafontaine , Euan A. Spence

We propose an adaptive approach in picking the wave-number parameter of absorbing boundary conditions for Schr\"{o}dinger-type equations. Based on the Gabor transform which captures local frequency information in the vicinity of artificial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Zhenli Xu , Houde Han , Xiaonan Wu

Negative refractive index materials have attracted significant research attention due to their unique electromagnetic response characteristics. In this paper, we employ the complementing boundary condition to establish rigorous a priori…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Wenjing Zhang , Yu Chen , Yixian Gao

We study and implement a simple method, based on the Perfectly Matched Layer approach, to treat non reflecting boundary conditions with the Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamics numerical algorithm. The method is based on the concept of physical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Molteni Diego , Rosario Grammauta , Enrico Vitanza

Maximally dissipative boundary conditions are applied to the initial-boundary value problem for Einstein's equations in harmonic coordinates to show that it is well-posed for homogeneous boundary data and for boundary data that is small in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 Bela Szilagyi , Jeffrey Winicour

A review of the treatment of boundaries in general relativity is presented with the emphasis on application to the formulations of Einstein's equations used in numerical relativity. At present, it is known how to treat boundaries in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeffrey Winicour

Absorbing-boundary-condition method and its applications to nuclear responses and breakup reactions are reported. The method facilitates calculations of the continuum states in the coordinate space of many degrees of freedom. Properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Takashi Nakatsukasa , Manabu Ueda , Kazuhiro Yabana

Recently, there has been much interest in black hole echoes, based on the idea that there may be some mechanism (e.g., from quantum gravity) that waves/fields falling into a black hole could partially reflect off of an interface before…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Conner Dailey , Niayesh Afshordi , Erik Schnetter

We devise a new high order local absorbing boundary condition (ABC) for radiating problems and scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from obstacles of arbitrary shape. By introducing an artificial boundary $S$ enclosing the scatterer,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Vianey Villamizar , Sebastian Acosta , Blake Dastrup

We show how the use of the normal projection of the Einstein tensor as a set of boundary conditions relates to the propagation of the constraints, for two representations of the Einstein equations with vanishing shift vector: the ADM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Simonetta Frittelli , Roberto Gomez

We propose a formulation of an absorbing boundary for a quantum particle. The formulation is based on a Feynman-type integral over trajectories that are confined to the non-absorbing region. Trajectories that reach the absorbing wall are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Marchewka , Z. Schuss

We investigate the properties of a fairly large class of boundary conditions for the linearised Einstein equations in the Riemannian setting, ones which generalise the linearised counterpart of boundary conditions proposed by Anderson.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Matteo Capoferri , Simone Murro , Gabriel Schmid

In many numerical implementations of the Cauchy formulation of Einstein's field equations one encounters artificial boundaries which raises the issue of specifying boundary conditions. Such conditions have to be chosen carefully. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-06 Oscar Reula , Olivier Sarbach

The principle part of Einstein equations in the harmonic gauge consists of a constrained system of 10 curved space wave equations for the components of the space-time metric. A well-posed initial boundary value problem based upon a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Jeffrey Winicour

We consider the linearized and nonlinear stationary incompressible flow around rotating and translating body in the exterior domain B with Lipschitz boundary. We derive the pointwise estimates for the pressure in both cases. Moreover, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-03 Paul Deuring , Stanislav Kracmar , Sarka Necasova

The use of fully or partially absorbing boundary conditions for diffusion-based problems has become paradigmatic in physical chemistry and biochemistry to describe reactions occurring in solutions or in living media. However, as chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-13 Francesco Piazza

The paper presents an automatic generator of approximate nonreflecting boundary conditions, analytical and numerical, for scalar wave equations. This generator has two main ingredients. The first one is a set of local Trefftz functions --…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Igor Tsukerman

Consider detectors waiting for a quantum particle to arrive at a surface $S$ in 3-space. For predicting the probability distribution of the time and place of detection, a rule was proposed in [arXiv:1601.03715], called the absorbing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Roderich Tumulka