FOURTH ORDER SYMMETRIC FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES FOR THE ACOUSTIC WAVE EQUATION

摘要

We present an explicit, symmetric finite difference scheme for the acoustic wave equation on a rectangle with Neumann and/or Dirichlet boundary conditions. The scheme is fourth order accurate both in time and space. It is obtained by mass lumping of a finite element scheme. The accuracy and the difference approximations at the boundary are analyzed in terms of local and global errors.