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An isogeometric boundary element method (BEM) is presented to solve scattering problems in an isotropic homogeneous medium. We consider wave problems governed by the scalar wave equation as in acoustics and the Lam\'e-Navier equations for…

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A numerical method for solving the equations modeling acoustic scattering is presented. The method is capable of handling several dozen scatterers, each of which is several wave-lengths long, on a personal work station. Even for geometries…

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In this work a novel method for the analysis with trimmed CAD surfaces is presented. The method involves an additional mapping step and the attraction stems from its sim- plicity and ease of implementation into existing Finite Element (FEM)…

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Flexural wave scattering plays a crucial role in optimizing and designing structures for various engineering applications. Mathematically, the flexural wave scattering problem on an infinite thin plate is described by a fourth-order…

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In this paper we develop a class of efficient Galerkin boundary element methods for the solution of two-dimensional exterior single-scattering problems. Our approach is based upon construction of Galerkin approximation spaces confined to…

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Conventionally, piecewise polynomials have been used in the boundary elements method (BEM) to approximate unknown boundary values. Since infinitely smooth radial basis functions (RBFs) are more stable and accurate than the polynomials for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Hossein Hosseinzadeh , Zeinab Sedaghatjoo

The main challenge of quantum computing on its way to scalability is the erroneous behaviour of current devices. Understanding and predicting their impact on computations is essential to counteract these errors with methods such as quantum…

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Previous acoustic transfer methods rely on extensive precomputation and storage of data to enable real-time interaction and auditory feedback. However, these methods struggle with complex scenes, especially when dynamic changes in object…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xutong Jin , Bo Pang , Chenxi Xu , Xinyun Hou , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

In this paper we address the problems of modeling the acoustic space generated by a full-spectrum sound source and of using the learned model for the localization and separation of multiple sources that simultaneously emit sparse-spectrum…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Antoine Deleforge , Florence Forbes , Radu Horaud

The presented paper concentrates on the boundary element method (BEM) for the heat equation in three spatial dimensions. In particular, we deal with tensor product space-time meshes allowing for quadrature schemes analytic in time and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Jan Zapletal , Raphael Watschinger , Günther Of , Michal Merta

We solve acoustic scattering problems by means of the isogeometric boundary integral equation method. In order to avoid spurious modes, we apply the combined field integral equations for either sound-hard scatterers or sound-soft…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Jürgen Dölz , Helmut Harbrecht , Michael Multerer

Boundary element methods (BEM) reduce a partial differential equation in a domain to an integral equation on the domain's boundary. They are particularly attractive for solving problems on unbounded domains, but handling the dense matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Steffen Börm

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) describe the directional filtering of the incoming sound caused by the morphology of a listener's head and pinnae. When an accurate model of a listener's morphology exists, HRTFs can be calculated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Harald Ziegelwanger , Wolfgang Kreuzer , Piotr Majdak

We study a symmetric BEM-FEM coupling scheme for the scattering of transient acoustic waves by bounded inhomogeneous anisotropic obstacles in a homogeneous field. An incident wave in free space interacts with the obstacles and produces a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Matthew E. Hassell , Francisco-Javier Sayas

Source localization based on electroencephalography (EEG) has become a widely used neuroimagining technique. However its precision has been shown to be very dependent on how accurately the brain, head and scalp can be electrically modeled…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lyes Rahmouni , Adrien Merlini , Axelle Pillain , Francesco P. Andriulli

In this paper, we present a fast boundary integral method accelerated by the fast multipole method (FMM) for acoustic wave scattering governed by the scalar Helmholtz equation in multi-layered two-dimensional media. Multiple scatterers are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Linfeng Xia , Heng Yuan , Bo Wang , Wei Cai

Many applications like subseismic fault modeling, fractured reservoir modeling and interpretation/validation of fault connectivity involve the solution to an elliptic boundary value problem in a background medium perturbed by the presence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Trung Hau Hoang

A novel boundary element method (BEM) removes the classical dependence on explicit fundamental solutions and extends quasi-optimal BEM discretisations to strongly elliptic operators with variable coefficients. The approach constructs a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Benedikt Gräßle , Stefan A. Sauter

We propose and analyse a hybrid numerical-asymptotic $hp$ boundary element method for time-harmonic scattering of an incident plane wave by an arbitrary collinear array of sound-soft two-dimensional screens. Our method uses an approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-12 David P. Hewett , Stephen Langdon , Simon N. Chandler-Wilde

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…

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