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Mode Normalization

Recall that the evaluation of the pressure requires the normalized modes. The normalization constant is

The integral term can be evaluated by the trapezoidal rule. That is,

where

In problems with density discontinuities, the trapezoidal rule is applied separately within each smooth region. Finally, the derivatives can be either evaluated analytically or by a simple centered-difference formula depending on their complexity. In order to accommodate a wide variety of boundary conditions without over-complicating the code, KRAKEN uses the difference approach.



Michael B. Porter
Tue Oct 28 13:27:38 PST 1997