The direct and indirect boundary element methods, accelerated via the fast multipole method, are applied to numerical simulation of room acoustics for large rooms of volume $\sim 150$ $m^{3}$ and frequencies up to 5 kHz on a workstation. As the parameter $kD$ (wavenumber times room diameter) is large, stabilization of the previously developed FMM algorithms is required for accuracy. A stabilization scheme is one of the key contribution of this paper. The computations are validated using well-known image source solutions for shoebox shaped rooms. Computations for L-shaped rooms are performed to illustrate the ability to capture diffractions. The ability to model in-room baffles, and boundary openings (doors/windows) is also demonstrated. The largest case has $kD>1100$ with a discretization of size 6 million elements. The performance of different boundary integral formulations was compared, and their rates of convergence using a preconditioned flexible GMRES were found to be substantially different. These promising results suggest a path to efficient simulations of room acoustics via high performance boundary element methods.
Accurate computation of Galerkin double surface integrals in the 3-D boundary element method
Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学学院公园分校计算机科学系）；Fantalgo, LLC（Fantalgo有限责任公司）；Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park（马里兰大学学院公园分校高级计算机研究所）
