Finite element formulations for exterior problems: Application to hybrid methods, non-reflecting boundary conditions, and infinite elements

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 2791-2805

  Harari, Isaac ^a   Barbone, Paul E ^b   Montgomery, Joshua M ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions; Acoustics; Finite element methods; Infinite elements; Lagrange multipliers; Unbounded domains

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

EXTERIOR ACOUSTIC PROBLEMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0031208213     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970815)40:15<2791::AID-NME191>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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