Local non-singular knot method for large-scale computation of acoustic problems in complicated geometries

Abstract

This paper presents a local non-singular knot method (LNKM) to accurately solve the large-scale acoustic problems in complicated geometries. The LNKM is a domain-type meshless collocation method, which relies only on scattered nodes. Firstly, a series of subdomains corresponding to every nodes can be searched based on the Euclidean distance between nodes. To each subdomain, a small linear system can be yielded by using the non-singular general solutions of Helmholtz-type equations. Secondly, the unknown variables at every nodes can be explicitly expressed by the function values at their corresponding supporting nodes. Finally, a large sparse system of linear equations is formed and solved to obtain the numerical solutions of physical quantities at every nodes. The proposed LNKM is mathematically simple, numerically accurate, and more applicable to the large-scale computation. Four numerical examples conform its effectiveness and accuracy for the large-scale computation of Helmholtz-type equations in complicated geometries.