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Absorbing boundary conditions for the Westervelt equation

Numerical Analysis 2014-08-22 v1

Abstract

The focus of this work is on the construction of a family of nonlinear absorbing boundary conditions for the Westervelt equation in one and two space dimensions. The principal ingredient used in the design of such conditions is pseudo-differential calculus. This approach enables to develop high order boundary conditions in a consistent way which are typically more accurate than their low order analogs. Under the hypothesis of small initial data, we establish local well-posedness for the Westervelt equation with the absorbing boundary conditions. The performed numerical experiments illustrate the efficiency of the proposed boundary conditions for different regimes of wave propagation.

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@article{arxiv.1408.5031,
  title  = {Absorbing boundary conditions for the Westervelt equation},
  author = {Barbara Kaltenbacher and Igor Shevchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5031},
  year   = {2014}
}
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