Many problems in geophysics, acoustics,
elasticity theory, cancer treatment, food process
control and electrodynamics involve study of methods
for wave field reproduction in some form or another.
In the present work, wave field reproduction
problems are analysed as static problems, using
finite element methods and treating time as an
additional spatial dimension. It is shown that a
fully finite element-based scheme is a very natural
and effective way to solve such problems.

As a result, distributed wave field synthesis
(DWFS) is introduced as a wave field reproduction
method in...