This paper addresses the extension of the Bayliss᎐Turkel second-order radiation condition to an arbitrarily shaped surface. The derivation is based mainly on the pseudo-differential calculus as well as on the introduction of a criterion providing a precise handling of the approximation process involved in the derivation of the radiation condition. The radiation condition then ranges among the most accurate of those of order two. As a by-product of the derivation, almost all known radiation conditions of order less than or equal to two are recovered and their respective accuracies are compared. ᮊ 1999 Academic Press
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