TY - GEN A1 - Gravenkamp, Hauke A1 - Natarajan, Sundarajan A1 - Dornisch, Wolfgang T1 - On the use of NURBS-based discretizations in the scaled boundary finite element method for wave propagation problems T2 - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering N2 - We discuss the application of non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS) in the scaled boundary finite element method (SBFEM) for the solution of wave propagation problems at rather high frequencies. We focus on the propagation of guided waves along prismatic structures of constant cross-section. Comparisons are made between NURBS-based discretizations and high-order spectral elements in terms of the achievable convergence rates. We find that for the same order of shape functions, NURBS can lead to significantly smaller errors compared with Lagrange polynomials. The difference becomes particularly important at very high frequencies, where spectral elements are prone to instabilities. Furthermore, we analyze the behavior of NURBS for the discretization of curved boundaries, where the benefit of exact geometry representation becomes crucial even in the low-frequency range. KW - Isogeometric analysis KW - caled boundary finite element method KW - Wave propagation KW - Spectral elements KW - NURBS Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2016.11.030 SN - 0045-7825 VL - 315 SP - 867 EP - 880 ER -