FINAL PROGRAM

               

INVITED SPEAKER

 

Simon N. Chandler-Wilde

Brunel University, UK

Title of the talk:  Integral Equation Methods for Scattering by One-Dimensional Rough Surfaces

Abstract : We consider the Dirichlet boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation in a non-locally perturbed half-plane which arises in a study of time  harmonic acoustic scattering of an incident field by a sound-soft, infinite rough sourface where the total field vanishes. We propose a second kind boundary integral equation formulation of this problem, the novel feature of which is that it uses a half-plane Green´s function in place of the standard free-field fundamental solution. This has the advantage that the integral equation is well posed in the space of bounded continuous functions in the L^p spaces, pÎ [ 1,¥ ] and the results can be obtained on convergence of the finite section method (truncating the range of integration) and on convergence of a banded matrix iteration algorithm. Numerical results suggest the theoretically predicted advantages are seen in practice.

 

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