Mathematics – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
2011-09-30
Mathematics
Numerical Analysis
8 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
A classical problem in acoustic scattering concerns the evaluation of the Green's function for the Helmholtz equation subject to impedance boundary conditions on a half-space. The two principal approaches used for representing this Green's function are the Sommerfeld integral and the (closely related) method of complex images. The former is extremely efficient when the source is at some distance from the half-space boundary, but involves an unwieldy range of integration as the source gets closer and closer. Complex image-based methods, on the other hand, can be quite efficient when the source is close to the boundary, but they do not easily permit the use of the superposition principle, since the selection of complex image locations depends on both the source and the target. We have developed a new, hybrid representation which uses a finite number of real images (dependent only on the source location) coupled with a rapidly converging Sommerfeld-like integral. Our method applies in both two and three dimensions and its efficiency is illustrated with numerical examples.
Greengard Leslie
O'Neil Michael
Pataki Andras
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