Partitioned finite element method for structured discretization with mixed boundary conditions

Abstract

Copyright © 2020 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND licenseThe propagation of acoustic waves in a 2D geometrical domain under mixed boundary control is here described by means of the port-Hamiltonian (pH) formalism. A finite element based method is employed to obtain a consistently discretized model. To construct a model with mixed boundary control, two different methodologies are detailed: one employs Lagrange multipliers, the other relies on a virtual domain decomposition to interconnect models with different causalities. The two approaches are assessed numerically, by comparing the Hamiltonian and the state variables norm for progressively refined meshes.

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