ON THE UNIQUENESS OF BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATION FOR THE EXTERIOR HELMHOLTZ PROBLEM

From the point of view of energy analysis,the cause that the uniqueness of theboundary integral equation induced from the exterior Helmholtz problem does not hold isinvestigated in this paper.It is proved that the Sommerfeld’s condition at the infinity ischanged so that it is suitable not only for the radiative wave but also for the absorptive wavewhen we use the boundary integral equation to describe the exterior Helmholtz problem.Therefore,the total energy of the system is conservative.The mathematical dealings toguarantee the uniqueness are discussed based upon this explanation