scholarly journals Numerical investigation on three treatments for eliminating the singularities of acoustic fundamental solutions in the singular boundary method

Author(s):  
Zhuo-Jia Fu ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Wenzhen Qu
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junpu Li ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Zhuojia Fu

The singular boundary method (SBM) is a recent boundary-type collocation scheme with the merits of being free of mesh and integration, mathematically simple, and easy-to-program. Its essential technique is to introduce the concept of the source intensity factors to eliminate the singularities of fundamental solutions upon the coincidence of source and collocation points in a strong-form formulation. In recent years, several numerical and semianalytical techniques have been proposed to determine source intensity factors. With the help of these latest techniques, this short communication makes an extensive investigation on numerical efficiency and convergence rates of the SBM to an extensive variety of benchmark problems in comparison with the BEM. We find that in most cases the SBM and BEM have similar convergence rates, while the SBM has slightly better accuracy than the direct BEM. And the condition number of SBM is lower than BEM. Without mesh and numerical integration, the SBM is computationally more efficient than the BEM.


2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 543-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Chen ◽  
Yan Gu

AbstractThis study proposes a new formulation of singular boundary method (SBM) to solve the 2D potential problems, while retaining its original merits being free of integration and mesh, easy-to-program, accurate and mathematically simple without the requirement of a fictitious boundary as in the method of fundamental solutions (MFS). The key idea of the SBM is to introduce the concept of the origin intensity factor to isolate the singularity of fundamental solution so that the source points can be placed directly on the physical boundary. This paper presents a new approach to derive the analytical solution of the origin intensity factor based on the proposed subtracting and adding-back techniques. And the troublesome sample nodes in the ordinary SBM are avoided and the sample solution is also not necessary for the Neumann boundary condition. Three benchmark problems are tested to demonstrate the feasibility and accuracy of the new formulation through detailed comparisons with the boundary element method (BEM), MFS, regularized meshless method (RMM) and boundary distributed source (BDS) method.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1289-1311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linlin Sun ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Alexander H.-D. Cheng

AbstractIn this paper, a new formulation is proposed to evaluate the origin intensity factors (OIFs) in the singular boundary method (SBM) for solving 3D potential problems with Dirichlet boundary condition. The SBM is a strong-form boundary discretization collocation technique and is mathematically simple, easy-to-program, and free of mesh. The crucial step in the implementation of the SBM is to determine the OIFs which isolate the singularities of the fundamental solutions. Traditionally, the inverse interpolation technique (IIT) is adopted to calculate the OIFs on Dirichlet boundary, which is time consuming for large-scale simulation. In recent years, the new methodology has been developed to efficiently calculate the OIFs on Neumann boundary, but the Dirichlet problem remains an open issue. This study employs the subtracting and adding-back technique based on the integration of the fundamental solution over the whole boundary to develop a new formulation of the OIFs on 3D Dirichlet boundary. Several problems with varied domain shapes and boundary conditions are carried out to validate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed scheme in comparison with the SBM based on inverse interpolation technique, the method of fundamental solutions, and the boundary element method.


2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuo-Jia Fu ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Ji Lin ◽  
Alexander H.-D. Cheng

This paper presents an improved singular boundary method (ISBM) to various exterior wave applications. The SBM is mathematically simple, easy-to-program, meshless and introduces the concept of source intensity factors to eliminate the singularity of the fundamental solutions. In this study, we first derive the source intensity factors of the exterior Helmholtz equation by means of the source intensity factors of the exterior Laplace equation due to the same order of the singularities on their fundamental solutions. The source intensity factors of the exterior Laplace equation can be determined using the reference technique [Chen, W. and Gu, Y. [2011] "Recent advances on singular boundary method," Joint international workshop on Trefftz method VI and method of fundamental solution II, Taiwan]. Numerical illustrations demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed scheme on four benchmark exterior wave examples.


Author(s):  
Karel Kovářík ◽  
Juraj Mužík

This work focuses on the derivation of the local variant of the singular boundary method (SBM) for solving the advection-diffusion equation of tracer transport. Localization is based on the combination of SBM and finite collocation. Unlike the global variant, local SBM leads to a sparse matrix of the resulting system of equations, making it much more efficient to solve large-scale tasks. It also allows solving velocity vector variable tasks, which is a problem with global SBM. This paper compares the results on several examples for the steady and unsteady variant of the advection-diffusion equation and also examines the dependence of the accuracy of the solution on the density of the nodal grid and the size of the subdomain.


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