Numerical accuracy of a Padé‐type non‐reflecting boundary condition for the finite element solution of acoustic scattering problems at high‐frequency

The present text deals with the numerical solution of two-dimensional high-frequency acoustic scattering problems using a new high-order and asymptotic Pade-type artificial boundary condition. The Pade-type condition is easy-to-implement in a Galerkin least-squares (iterative) finite element solver for arbitrarily convex-shaped boundaries. The method accuracy is investigated for different model problems and for the scattering problem by a submarine-shaped scatterer. As a result, relatively small computational domains, optimized according to the shape of the scatterer, can be considered while yielding accurate computations for high-frequencies. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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