On the Well-Posedness of UPML Method for Wave Scattering in Layered Media
Wangtao Lu, Jun Lai and Haijun Wu
CSIAM Trans. Appl. Math. DOI:
10.4208/csiam-am.SO-2023-0023
Publication Date : 2024-03-07
This paper proposes a novel method to establish the well-posedness of uniaxial perfectly matched layer (UPML) method for a two-dimensional acoustic scattering from a compactly supported source in a two-layered medium. We solve a long
standing problem by showing that the truncated layered medium scattering problem is
always resonance free regardless of the thickness and absorbing strength of UPML. The
main idea is based on analyzing an auxiliary waveguide problem obtained by truncating the layered medium scattering problem through PML in the vertical direction only.
The Green function for this waveguide problem can be constructed explicitly based on
the separation of variables and Fourier transform. We prove that such a construction
is always well-defined regardless of the absorbing strength. The well-posedness of the
fully UPML truncated scattering problem follows by assembling the waveguide Green
function through periodic extension.
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