Abstract: Perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundary conditions (ABC) are presented for nonlinear Euler equations in unbounded domains. The basic idea consists of two steps. First,PML technique is applied to linearized Euler equations in either a uniform mean flow or a parallel mean flow. Nonlinear PML equations are then derived by replacing flux functions in linearized Euler equations with nonlinear counterparts. Since a stiff source term gets involved in PML equations,an implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta scheme is proposed to integrate discrete ODE system. Numerical experiments are performed. They demonstrate advantage of proposed PML ABC over traditional characteristic boundary condition.

Key words: Euler equation, absorbing boundary condition, unbounded domain, perfectly matched layer