Time-domain multiple traces boundary integral formulation for acoustic wave scattering in 2D

Abstract

We present a novel computational scheme to solve acoustic wave transmission problems over two-dimensional composite scatterers, i.e. penetrable obstacles possessing junctions or triple points. The continuous problem is cast as a local multiple traces time-domain boundary integral formulation. For discretization in time and space, we resort to convolution quadrature schemes coupled to a non-conforming spatial spectral discretization based on second kind Chebyshev polynomials displaying fast convergence. Computational experiments confirm convergence of multistep and multistage convolution quadrature for a variety of complex domains.