Multi-Domain Boundary Element Method for Sound Scattering on a Partly Perturbed Water Surface

Abstract

The problem is the scattering of a plane sound wave at a rough water-air interface. The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the method and demonstrate its work with simple examples. The main advantage of this approach is that there are no limits on the relation between the shape of the surface and the incident wave, so we can consider large Rayleigh parameter, shading, multiple scattering. The solution of the Helmholtz equation in the form of an integral over the boundary is used only in the inner domain, in the outer domain the separation of variables is used to obtain a nonlocal integral boundary condition on the artificial boundary.