Time domain boundary integral equation methods in acoustics, heat diffusion and electromagnetism
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2016
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University of Delaware
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the discretization error induced by the Convolution Quadrature Galerkin method in seeking the numerical solution to time domain boundary integral equations arising in the problem of acoustic wave scattering by penetrable obstacles, electromagnetic wave scattering by a perfect electric conductor and heat conduction in the presence of a bounded inclusion. There are two sources of the numerical error: the error between the exact solution and spatial semidiscrete solution, and the error between the spatial semidiscrete solution and fully discrete solution. In the spatial semidiscrete error analysis, we fit the problem into the framework of the strongly continuous semigroup theory and obtain an error estimate sharper than that attainable by the traditional Laplace domain approach. For the full discrete error analysis, we try to apply the functional calculus theory to achieve a pure time domain approach with some success. Several numerical experiments are provided to validate the theoretical results.