Browsing by Author "Nedelec, Jean-Claude"

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    ABOUT SOME BOUNDARY INTEGRAL OPERATORS ON THE UNIT DISK RELATED TO THE LAPLACE EQUATION
    (2017) Ramaciotti, Pedro; Nedelec, Jean-Claude
    We introduce four integral operators related to the Laplace equation in three dimensions on the circular unit disk. Two of them are related to the weakly singular operator and the other two are related to the hypersingular operator. We provide series expressions for their kernels using proposed bases for the Sobolev trace spaces involved in the symmetric Dirichlet and antisymmetric Neumann Laplace screen problems on the disk. We then provide explicit and closed variational forms suitable for boundary element computations. We develop numerical computation schemes for the associated Galerkin matrices and test their use as preconditioners for the matrices arising from the integral equations associated with the solution of the mentioned screen problems.
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    Computing numerically the Green's function of the half-plane Helmholtz operator with impedance boundary conditions
    (2007) Duran, Mario; Hein, Ricardo; Nedelec, Jean-Claude
    In this article we compute numerically the Green's function of the half-plane Helmholtz operator with impedance boundary conditions. A compactly perturbed half-plane Helmholtz problem is used to motivate this calculation, by treating it through integral equation techniques. These require the knowledge of the calculated Green's function, and lead to a boundary element discretization. The Green's function is computed using the inverse Fourier operator of its spectral transform, applying an inverse FFT for the regular part, and removing the singularities analytically. Finally, some numerical results for the Green's function and for a benchmark resonance problem are shown.
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    The Helmholtz Equation in a Locally Perturbed Half-Space with Non-Absorbing Boundary
    (2009) Duran, Mario; Muga, Ignacio; Nedelec, Jean-Claude
    We obtain uniqueness and existence results of an outgoing solution for the Helmholtz equation in a half-space, or in a compact local perturbation of it, with an impedance boundary condition. It is worth noting that these kinds of domains have unbounded boundaries which lead to a non-classical exterior problem. The established radiation condition is somewhat different from the usual Sommerfeld's one, due to the appearance of surface waves (in the case of a non-absorbing boundary). A half-space Green's function framework is used to carry out our computations. This is an extended and detailed version of the previous article "The Helmholtz equation with impedance in a half-space," Duran et al. (CR Acad Sci Paris Ser I 341:561-566, 2005).