# Sparse convolution quadrature for time domain boundary integral formulations of the wave equation

Hackbusch, W; Kress, W; Sauter, S (2009). Sparse convolution quadrature for time domain boundary integral formulations of the wave equation. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 29(1):158-179.

## Abstract

Many important physical applications are governed by the wave equation. The formulation as time domain boundary integral equations involves retarded potentials. For the numerical solution of this problem, we employ the convolution quadrature method for the discretization in time and the Galerkin boundary element method for the space discretization. We introduce a simple a priori cut-off strategy where small entries of the system matrices are replaced by zero. The threshold for the cut-off is determined by an a priori analysis which will be developed in this paper. This analysis will also allow to estimate the effect of additional perturbations such as panel clustering and numerical integration on the overall discretization error. This method reduces the storage complexity for time domain integral equations from O(M2N) to O(M2N1/2 logM), where N denotes the number of time steps and M is the dimension of the boundary element space.

## Abstract

Many important physical applications are governed by the wave equation. The formulation as time domain boundary integral equations involves retarded potentials. For the numerical solution of this problem, we employ the convolution quadrature method for the discretization in time and the Galerkin boundary element method for the space discretization. We introduce a simple a priori cut-off strategy where small entries of the system matrices are replaced by zero. The threshold for the cut-off is determined by an a priori analysis which will be developed in this paper. This analysis will also allow to estimate the effect of additional perturbations such as panel clustering and numerical integration on the overall discretization error. This method reduces the storage complexity for time domain integral equations from O(M2N) to O(M2N1/2 logM), where N denotes the number of time steps and M is the dimension of the boundary element space.

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Item Type: Journal Article, refereed, original work 07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Mathematics 510 Mathematics English 2009 11 Nov 2009 15:38 31 Dec 2017 06:32 Oxford University Press 0272-4979 https://doi.org/10.1093/imanum/drm044 http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2470945

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