INFINITE ELEMENTS FOR 2D UNBOUNDED WAVE PROBLEMS

A basic difficulty encountered in applying the finite element method to unbounded wave problems is that the domain in which the field is to be computed is unbounded, while finite element models are of finite size. There are several ways to overcome this difficulty. The widely used method is to truncate the finite element model at a finite position and apply suitable boundary conditions there. The relevant boundary conditions must absorb the outgoing wave and have been called absorbing boundary conditions (ABC's).