Publications [#283636] of Qing H. Liu

Papers Published

1. Yan, QZ; Qing, HL; Zhao, G, Multidomain pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) method for acoustic waves in lossy media, Journal of Computational Acoustics, vol. 12 no. 3 (September, 2004), pp. 277-299, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt [doi]
   (last updated on 2023/08/08)

   Abstract:
   A multidomain pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) method is developed for acoustic wave equations in lossy media. The method is based on the spectral derivative operator approximated by Chebyshev Lagrange polynomials. In this multidomain scheme, the computational domain is decomposed into a set of subdomains conformal to the problem geometry. Each curved subdomain is then mapped onto a cube in the curvilinear coordinates so that a tensor-product Chebyshev grid can be utilized without the staircasing error. An unsplit-field, well-posed PML is developed as the absorbing boundary condition. The algorithm is validated by analytical solutions. The numerical solutions show that this algorithm is efficient for simulating acoustic wave phenomena in the presence of complex objects in inhomogeneous media. To our knowledge, the multidomain PSTD method for acoustics is a new development in three dimensions, although in two dimensions the method can be made equivalent to the two-dimensional method in electromagnetics.