“…For cavities of more complex shapes, various so-called semi-analytical methods were developed [Succi, 1987;Dowell et al, 1977;Missaoui and Cheng, 1997], by pushing the analytical treatment to its limit before deploying numerical descretizations. Most of these methods, however, involve stringent limitation on the cavity shapes such as a slight distortion from a regular one [Succi, 1987], a combination of regular-shaped sub-cavities with known eigen-functions [Dowell et al, 1977] or a combination of the aforementioned scenarios [Missaoui and Cheng, 1997;Anyunzoghe and Cheng, 2002]. As a last resort, numerical solvers such as finite element methods (FEM) and boundary element method (BEM) have long been recognized as the most versatile tools to deal with systems of various shapes.…”