Adaptive time-domain boundary element methods for the wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions

Abstract

This article investigates adaptive mesh refinement procedures for the time-domain wave equation with Neumann boundary conditions, formulated as an equivalent hypersingular boundary integral equation. Space-adaptive and time-adaptive versions of a space-time boundary element method are presented, based on a reliable a posteriori error estimate of residual type. Numerical experiments illustrate the performance of the proposed approach.