On Stability of Exact Transparent Boundary Condition for the Parabolic Equation in Rectangular Computational Domain

Recently a new exact transparent boundary condition (TBC) for the 3D parabolic wave equation (PWE) in rectangular computational domain was derived. However in the obtained form it does not appear to be unconditionally stable when used with, for instance, the Crank-Nicolson finite-difference scheme. In this paper two new formulations of the TBC for the 3D PWE in rectangular computational domain are reported, which are likely to be unconditionally stable. They are based on an unconditionally stable fully discrete TBC for the Crank-Nicolson scheme for the 2D PWE. These new forms of the TBC can be used for numerical solution of the 3D PWE when a higher precision is required.