Mathematical analysis of absorbing boundary conditions for the wave equation: the corner problem

Vacus, Olivier

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-04-01669-2

Mathematical analysis of absorbing boundary conditions for the wave equation: the corner problem
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Abstract:

Our goal in this work is to establish the existence and the uniqueness of a smooth solution to what we call in this paper the corner problem, that is to say, the wave equation together with absorbing conditions at two orthogonal boundaries. First we set the existence of a very smooth solution to this initial boundary value problem. Then we show the decay in time of energies of high order—higher than the order of the boundary conditions. This result shows that the corner problem is strongly well-posed in spaces smaller than in the half-plane case. Finally, specific corner conditions are derived to select the smooth solution among less regular solutions. These conditions are required to derive complete numerical schemes.

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