ANALYSIS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSIENT ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION USING THE BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATION METHOD

This paper describes a boundary integral equation (boundary element) method for the solution of a variety of transient acoustic problems. The spatial and temporal discretization employs quadratic isoparametric elements with high-order Gauss quadrature, and the ensuing equations are implicit. The implicit formulation both eliminates the instabilities reported in explicit treatments, and permits a freedom of choice of timestep which can reduce costs dramatically. The accuracy of the approach is demonstrated by comparison with the analytical solution for a sphere. Results for more demanding sphere–cone–sphere geometries extending to seven wavelengths long are presented, and compared to those obtained from a related frequency domain approach.

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