A Spectral-Element Method for Transmission （Spectral-Element方法传输）.pdf

J Sci Comput (2013) 57:670–688 DOI 10.1007/s10915-013-9720-1 A Spectral-Element Method for Transmission Eigenvalue Problems Jing An · Jie Shen Received: 22 February 2013 / Revised: 16 April 2013 / Accepted: 23 April 2013 / Published online: 1 May 2013 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract We develop an efficient spectral-element method for computing the transmis- sion eigenvalues in two-dimensional radially stratified media. Our method is based on a dimension reduction approach which reduces the problem to a sequence of one-dimensional eigenvalue problems that can be efficiently solved by a spectral-element method. We provide an error analysis which shows that the convergence rate of the eigenvalues is twice that of the eigenfunctions in energy norm. We present ample numerical results to show that the method convergences exponentially fast for piecewise stratified media, and is very effective, particularly for computing the few smallest eigenvalues. Keywords Spectral method · Transmission eigenvalue · Helmholtz equation Mathematics Subject Classification (1991) 78M22 · 78A46 · 65N35 · 35J05 · 41A58 1 Introduction Since the transmission eigenvalues can be used to estimate the material properties of the scattering field, the transmission eigenvalue problems play a very important role in inverse scattering problems and have received much attention recently [2–5,9]. We consider in this paper the interior transmission eigenvalue problem for the scattering of acoustic waves by a bounded inhomogeneous medium D ⊂ R 2 : Find k ∈ C, w, v ∈ L 2 (D), w − v ∈ H 2 (D) such that The work of J. Shen partially supported by AFOSR grant FA9550-11-1-0328 and NFS grant DMS-1217066. J. An · J. Shen School of Mathematics and Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China J. Shen ( ) B Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA e-