A numerical method for scattering problems with unbounded interfaces

Abstract: We introduce a new class of computationally tractable scattering problems in unbounded domains, which we call decomposable problems. In these decomposable problems, the computational domain can be split into a finite collection of subdomains in which the scatterer has a "simple" structure. A subdomain is simple if the domain Green's function for this subdomain is either available analytically or can be computed numerically with arbitrary accuracy by a tractable method. These domain Green's functions are then used to reformulate the scattering problem as a system of boundary integral equations on the union of the subdomain boundaries. This reformulation gives a practical numerical method, as the resulting integral equations can then be solved, to any desired degree of accuracy, by using coordinate complexification over a finite interval, and standard discretization techniques.