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Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lehel Banjai , Christian Lubich , Joerg Nick

A rarely exploited advantage of time-domain boundary integral equations compared to their frequency counterparts is that they can be used to treat certain nonlinear problems. In this work we investigate the scattering of acoustic waves by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Lehel Banjai , Alexander Rieder

We present a hybrid numerical-asymptotic (HNA) boundary element method (BEM) for high frequency scattering by two-dimensional screens and apertures, whose computational cost to achieve any prescribed accuracy remains bounded with increasing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Andrew Gibbs , David Hewett , Daan Huybrechs , Emile Parolin

Motivated by questions in inverse scattering theory, we develop free boundary methods in obstacle problems where both the solution and the right hand side of the equation may have varying sign. The key condition that prevents the appearance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Mikko Salo , Henrik Shahgholian

The left-right operator splitting method is studied for the efficient calculation of acoustic fields scattered by arbitrary rough surfaces. Here the governing boundary integral is written as a sum of left- and right-going components, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 Orsola Rath Spivack , Mark Spivack

Wave propagation and scattering problems in acoustics are often solved with boundary element methods. They lead to a discretization matrix that is typically dense and large: its size and condition number grow with increasing frequency. Yet,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

This paper presents a multiscale Petrov-Galerkin finite element method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems with heterogeneous coefficients in the high-frequency regime. We show that the method is pollution- free also in the case…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Donald L. Brown , Dietmar Gallistl , Daniel Peterseim

We present a novel immersed boundary method that implements acoustic perturbation theory to model an acoustically levitated droplet. Instead of resolving sound waves numerically, our hybrid method solves acoustic scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-22 Jacqueline B. Sustiel , David G. Grier

This article initiates the study of space-time adaptive mesh refinements for time-dependent boundary element formulations of wave equations. Based on error indicators of residual type, we formulate an adaptive boundary element procedure for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Alessandra Aimi , Giulia Di Credico , Heiko Gimperlein , Chiara Guardasoni

We propose and analyse a numerical method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by a class of inhomogeneities (penetrable scatterers) with fractal boundary. Our method is based on a Galerkin discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Joshua Bannister , David P. Hewett , Andrew Gibbs

Investigating the sound field in and around ducts is an important topic in acoustics, e.g. when simulating musical instruments or the human vocal tract. In this paper a method that is based on the boundary element method in 3D combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Wolfgang Kreuzer

The acoustic wave-propagation without mean flow and heat flux can be described in terms of velocity and pressure by the compressible nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations, where boundary layers appear at walls due to the viscosity and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Anastasia Thoens-Zueva , Kersten Schmidt , Adrien Semin

This paper investigates the problem of time-harmonic acoustic scattering in an inhomogeneous medium with a complex topological structure. Specifically, the medium is anisotropic and contains several disjoint sound-soft obstacles. This model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Huaian Diao , Qingle Meng , Zhiying Sun

We consider the scattering of acoustic perturbations in a presence of a flow. We suppose that the space can be split into a zone where the flow is uniform and a zone where the flow is potential. In the first zone, we apply a Prandtl-Glauert…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nolwenn Balin , Fabien Casenave , François Dubois , Eric Duceau , Stefan Duprey , Isabelle Terrasse

We consider the numerical solution of time-harmonic acoustic scattering by obstacles with uncertain geometries for Dirichlet, Neumann, impedance and transmission boundary conditions. In particular, we aim to quantify diffracted fields…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Paul Escapil-Inchauspé , Carlos Jerez-Hanckes

A highly efficient fast boundary element method (BEM) for solving large-scale engineering acoustic problems in a broad frequency range is developed and implemented. The acoustic problems are modeled by the Burton-Miller boundary integral…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Yanchuang Cao , Lihua Wen , Jinyou Xiao

This paper is concerned with a numerical solution of the acoustic scattering by a bounded impenetrable obstacle in three dimensions. The obstacle scattering problem is formulated as a boundary value problem in a bounded domain by using a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Gang Bao , Mingming Zhang , Bin Hu , Peijun Li

The problem of the fictitious frequency spectrum resulting from numerical implementations of the boundary element method for the exterior Helmholtz problem is revisited. When the ordinary 3D free space Green's function is replaced by a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Evert Klaseboer , Florian D. E. Charlet , Boo-Cheong Khoo , Qiang Sun , Derek Y. C. Chan

The paper develops a hybrid method for solving a system of advection--diffusion equations in a bulk domain coupled to advection--diffusion equations on an embedded surface. A monotone nonlinear finite volume method for equations posed in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Yuri V. Vassilevski

In this paper, the partial-wave expansion method is applied to describe the difference-frequency pressure generated in a nonlinear scattering of two acoustic waves with an arbitrary wavefront by means of a rigid sphere. Particularly, the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Glauber T. Silva , Anderson Bandeira