Abstract
AbstractThe method of integral equations is the most familiar method of proving existence theorems for the Helmholtz equation of acoustics. The wave potentials are expressed as surface distributions of wave sources (for the Neumann problem) or wave dipoles (for the Dirichlet problem). By a wave source is meant the free-space wave source. The source and dipole strengths for the exterior potentials are found to be solutions of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind which are, however, singular at a certain discrete set of frequencies corresponding to eigensolutions of the interior problems. The existence of exterior solutions at the expected frequencies can still be shown, but the proof involves a detailed and complicated study of the interior solutions. It is physically evident that this difficulty arises from the method of solution and not from the nature of the problem.
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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