Published March 2024 | Published
Journal Article

Multiple-scattering frequency-time hybrid solver for the wave equation in interior domains

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science

Abstract

This paper proposes a frequency-time hybrid solver for the time-dependent wave equation in two-dimensional interior spatial domains. The approach relies on four main elements, namely, (1) A multiple scattering strategy that decomposes a given interior time-domain problem into a sequence of limited-duration time-domain problems of scattering by overlapping open arcs, each one of which is reduced (by means of the Fourier transform) to a sequence of Helmholtz frequency-domain problems; (2) Boundary integral equations on overlapping boundary patches for the solution of the frequency-domain problems in point (1); (3) A smooth "Time-windowing and recentering" methodology that enables both treatment of incident signals of long duration and long time simulation; and, (4) A Fourier transform algorithm that delivers numerically dispersionless, spectrally-accurate time evolution for given incident fields. By recasting the interior time-domain problem in terms of a sequence of open-arc multiple scattering events, the proposed approach regularizes the full interior frequency domain problem—which, if obtained by either Fourier or Laplace transformation of the corresponding interior time-domain problem, must encapsulate infinitely many scattering events, giving rise to non-uniqueness and eigenfunctions in the Fourier case, and ill conditioning in the Laplace case. Numerical examples are included which demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed methodology.

Copyright and License

© 2023 American Mathematical Society.

Acknowledgement

The first author was supported by NSF, DARPA and AFOSR through contracts DMS-2109831, HR00111720035, FA9550-19-1-0173 and FA9550-21-1-0373, and by the NSSEFF Vannevar Bush Fellowship under contract number N00014-16-1-2808. The second author was supported by NSFC through Grants No. 12171465 and 12288201.

Additional details

Created:
November 7, 2024
Modified:
November 8, 2024