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Dirac delta methods for Helmholtz transmission problems

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In this paper we use a boundary integral method with single layer potentials to solve a class of Helmholtz transmission problems in the plane. We propose and analyze a novel and very simple quadrature method to solve numerically the equivalent system of integral equations which provides an approximation of the solution of the original problem with linear convergence (quadratic in some special cases). Furthermore, we also investigate a modified quadrature approximation based on the ideas of qualocation methods. This new scheme is again extremely simple to implement and has order three in weak norms.

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Domínguez, V., Rapún, ML. & Sayas, FJ. Dirac delta methods for Helmholtz transmission problems. Adv Comput Math 28, 119–139 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-006-9015-2

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