RADIATION BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR THE HELMHOLTZ EQUATION FOR ELLIPSOIDAL, PROLATE SPHEROIDAL, OBLATE SPHEROIDAL AND SPHERICAL DOMAIN BOUNDARIES

One of the most popular radiation boundary conditions for the Helmholtz equation in exterior 3-D regions has been the sequence of operators developed by Bayliss et al.1 for computational domains with spherical exterior boundaries. The present paper extends those spherical operators to triaxial ellipsoidal boundaries by utilizing two mathematical constructs originally developed for ellipsoidal acoustic infinite elements.2 The two constructs are: (i) a radial/angular coordinate system for ellipsoidal geometry, and (ii) a convergent ellipsoidal radial expansion for exterior fields, analogous to the classical spherical multipole expansion. The ellipsoidal radial and angular coordinates are smooth generalizations of the traditional radial and angular coordinates used in spherical, prolate spheroidal and oblate spheroidal systems. As a result, all four coordinate systems and their corresponding radiation boundary conditions are included within this single ellipsoidal system, varying smoothly from one to the oth...

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