Piecewise oblique boundary treatment for the elastic–plastic wave equation on a cartesian grid

Abstract

Numerical schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws in 2-D on a Cartesian grid usually have the advantage of being easy to implement and showing good computational performances, without allowing the simulation of “real-world” problems on arbitrarily shaped domains. In this paper a numerical treatment of boundary conditions for the elastic–plastic wave equation is developed, which allows the simulation of problems on an arbitrarily shaped physical domain surrounded by a piece-wise smooth boundary curve, but using a PDE solver on a rectangular Cartesian grid with the afore-mentioned advantages.