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Acoustic scattering by impedance screens/cracks with fractal boundary: Well-posedness analysis and boundary element approximation

Bannister, J; Gibbs, A; Hewett, DP; (2022) Acoustic scattering by impedance screens/cracks with fractal boundary: Well-posedness analysis and boundary element approximation. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences , 32 (2) pp. 291-319. 10.1142/S0218202522500075. Green open access

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Abstract

We study time-harmonic scattering in Rn (n = 2, 3) by a planar screen (a "crack"in the context of linear elasticity), assumed to be a non-empty bounded relatively open subset L of the hyperplane L∞ = Rn-1 ×{0}, on which impedance (Robin) boundary conditions are imposed. In contrast to previous studies, L can have arbitrarily rough (possibly fractal) boundary. To obtain well-posedness for such L we show how the standard impedance boundary value problem and its associated system of boundary integral equations must be supplemented with additional solution regularity conditions, which hold automatically when ℓL is smooth. We show that the associated system of boundary integral operators is compactly perturbed coercive in an appropriate function space setting, strengthening previous results. This permits the use of Mosco convergence to prove convergence of boundary element approximations on smoother "prefractal"screens to the limiting solution on a fractal screen. We present accompanying numerical results, validating our theoretical convergence results, for three-dimensional scattering by a Koch snowflake and a square snowflake.

Type: Article
Title: Acoustic scattering by impedance screens/cracks with fractal boundary: Well-posedness analysis and boundary element approximation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202522500075
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202522500075
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Scattering, fractal screens, boundary element method
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
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URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144789
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