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ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 43, Number 2, March-April 2009
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Page(s) | 377 - 398 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an:2008047 | |
Published online | 05 December 2008 |
Convergence results of the fictitious domain method for a mixed formulation of the wave equation with a Neumann boundary condition
1
POEMS, INRIA-Rocquencourt, BP 105, 78153 Le
Chesnay Cédex, France. eliane.becache@inria.fr
2
POEMS, ENSTA, 32 boulevard Victor, 75739
Paris Cedex 15, France. jeronimo.rodriguez@ensta.fr
3
Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete & IACM/FORTH, Crete, Greece.
tsogka@tem.uoc.gr
Received:
22
February
2008
Revised:
22
September
2008
The problem of modeling acoustic waves scattered by an object with Neumann boundary condition is considered. The boundary condition is taken into account by means of the fictitious domain method, yielding a first order in time mixed variational formulation for the problem. The resulting system is discretized with two families of mixed finite elements that are compatible with mass lumping. We present numerical results illustrating that the Neumann boundary condition on the object is not always correctly taken into account when the first family of mixed finite elements is used. We, therefore, introduce the second family of mixed finite elements for which a theoretical convergence analysis is presented and error estimates are obtained. A numerical study of the convergence is also considered for a particular object geometry which shows that our theoretical error estimates are optimal.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65M60 / 65M12 / 65M15 / 65C20 / 74S05
Key words: Mixed finite elements / fictitious domain method / domain embedding method / acoustic waves / convergence analysis.
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