Abstract
The natural boundary element (NBE) method is herein mainly adopted to compute the numerical solutions of the viscoelastic wave equation in a two-dimensional (2D) unbounded domain. To this end, a new time semi-discrete (TSD) scheme is constructed for the viscoelastic wave equation, and the existence, stability, and error estimates of the time semi-discretized solutions are analyzed. Subsequently, based on the natural boundary naturalization principle, a fully discrete NBE scheme is established. The existence and stability of the fully discrete NBE solutions are examined, and the errors between the analytical solution and the fully discrete NBE solutions are estimated. Finally, several numerical experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the NBE method in solving the viscoelastic wave equation in the 2D unbounded domain.
Keywords
natural boundary element
viscoelastic wave equation
existence and stability
error estimate
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Funding
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 11671106.
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Teng, F. (2025). A New Natural Boundary Element Method for the 2D Viscoelastic Wave Equation. Journal of Numerical Simulations in Physics and Mathematics, 1(1), 32–41. https://doi.org/10.62762/JNSPM.2025.358007
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