A performance study of plane wave finite element methods with a Padé-type artificial boundary condition in acoustic scattering

Abstract: This paper proposes an original numerical method and studies its performance for solving high-frequency scattering problems involving elongated scatterers. The approach is based on coupling a high-order Padé-type non-reflecting boundary condition with plane wave finite element formulations. It is shown that for some numerical examples the approximate solution of suitable accuracy can be obtained using a small number of degrees of freedom. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]