A spectral approach to a constrained optimization problem for the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains

Abstract

We study some convergence issues for a recent approach to the problem of transparent boundary conditions for the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains. The approach is based on the minimization on an integral functional which arises from an integral formulation of the radiation condition at infinity. In this Letter, we implement a Fourier-Chebyschev collocation method and show that this approach reduce the computational cost significantly. As a consequence, we give numerical evidence of some convergence estimates available in literature and we study the robustness of the algorithm at low and mid-high frequencies.