On the Parameters of the Perfectly Matched Layer in Discrete Contexts

peer reviewedPerfectly Matched Layer (PML) techniques are widely used for dealing with unbounded problems. However their performance depends critically on both an absorption coefficient and the numerical method. The coefficient is generally tuned by using costly and case-dependent optimization procedures or set empirically. In this paper we present some efficient profiles of the coefficient that allow to avoid any tuning in discrete contexts. These profiles are compared by means of two benchmarks with different numerical methods