High-frequency estimates and error bounds on the h-BEM for the Helmholtz exterior Neumann problem
Abstract
In this talk, we consider solving the Helmholtz equation posed in the exterior of a smooth obstacle, with Neumann boundary conditions, and using second-kind boundary integral equations (BIEs). We study the h-version of the Galerkin boundary element method, and its accuracy at high-frequency.
The study of the behaviour of Galerkin error when the frequency increases requires, in particular, high-frequency estimates for the considered boundary integral operators. In the case of Dirichlet boundary condition, results are well-known in the literature for the standard second-kind BIE, but in the case of Neumann boundary condition, where regularisation techniques are commonly used, such estimates are rare.
Our contribution is twofold: we first present high-frequency estimates for a particular regularised formulation in the case of Neumann boundary conditions, and then, we present a frequency-explicit bound for its discretisation error.
