Boundary Integral Equation Methods for High Frequency Scattering Problems

Project Overview

This was a joint project running from October 2008 to September 2012 involving the University of Bath and the University of Reading on the development of robust methods for high-frequency wave scattering problems. The project was supported by EPSRC grants EP/F06795X/1 and EP/F067798/1.

People

Investigators: Ivan Graham (at Bath), Valery Smyshlyaev (initially at Bath but then at UCL), Simon Chandler-Wilde (at Reading), and Steve Langdon (also at Reading).
Postdocs: Timo Betcke (February 2009 - October 2009) and David Hewett (March 2010 - September 2012) at Reading, and Euan Spence (March 2009 - March 2011) and Tatiana Kim (October 2011 - September 2012) at Bath.
Visitors: Professor V. Dominguez (University of Navarra), Professor M. Ganesh (Colorado School of Mines) and Professor Ralf Hiptmair (ETH Zürich).
The project also involved strong involvement from four external bodies: BAE Systems, the UK Met Office, the Institute of Cancer Research UK and Schlumberger, whose representatives sat on the Steering Committee for the project.

Papers and preprints from the project

The invited review article

S.N. Chandler-Wilde, I.G. Graham, S. Langdon, E.A. Spence, Numerical-asymptotic boundary integral methods in high-frequency acoustic scattering, Acta Numerica, vol. 21, 89--305 (2012) local (official) copy

contains a summary of the majority of the results of the project. List of individual publications coming soon....

Related projects

BEM++ a project to develop a modern open source C++ boundary element library. The project is supported by EPSRC grant EP/I030042/1
Timo Betcke's EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship "Next generation finite element methods for wave problems" EP/H004009/2.
Euan Spence's EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship "New Methods and Analysis for Wave Propagation Problems" EP/1025995/1.