@TechReport{ it:2008-019, author = {Ken Mattsson and Frank Ham and Gianluca Iaccarino}, title = {Stable Boundary Treatment for the Wave Equation on Second-Order Form}, institution = {Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University}, department = {Division of Scientific Computing}, year = {2008}, number = {2008-019}, month = jun, abstract = {A stable and accurate boundary treatment is derived for the second-order wave equation. The domain is discretized using narrow-diagonal summation by parts operators and the boundary conditions are imposed using a penalty method, leading to fully explicit time integration. This discretization yields a stable and efficient scheme. The analysis is verified by numerical simulations in one-dimension using high-order finite difference discretizations, and in three-dimensions using an unstructured finite volume discretization.} }