High-order nonreflecting boundary conditions without high-order derivatives

Abstract A wave problem in an unbounded domain is often treated numerically by truncating the infinite domain via an artificial boundary B , imposing a so-called nonreflecting boundary condition (NRBC) on B , and then solving the problem numerically in the finite domain bounded by B . A general approach is devised here to construct high-order local NRBCs with a symmetric structure and with only low (first- or second-) order spatial and/or temporal derivatives. This enables the practical use of NRBCs of arbitrarily high order. In the case of time-harmonic waves with finite element discretization, the approach yields a symmetric C0 finite element formulation in which standard elements can be employed. The general methodology is presented for both the time-harmonic case (Helmholtz equation) and the time-dependent case (the wave equation) and is demonstrated numerically in the former case.

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