  Time-domain wave scattering in an unbounded two-dimensional acoustic medium
by sound-hard scatterers is considered. Two canonical geometries, namely a
split-ring resonator (SRR) and an array of cylinders, are used to highlight the
theory, which generalises to arbitrary scatterer geometries. The problem is
solved using the generalised eigenfunction expansion method (GEM), which
expresses the time-domain solution in terms of the frequency-domain solutions.
A discrete GEM is proposed to numerically approximate the time-domain solution.
It relies on quadrature approximations of continuous integrals and can be
thought of as a generalisation of the discrete Fourier transform. The solution
then takes a simple form in terms of direct matrix multiplications. In parallel
to the GEM, the singularity expansion method (SEM) is also presented and
applied to the two aforementioned geometries. It expands the time-domain
solution over a discrete set of unforced, complex resonant modes of the
scatterer. Although the coefficients of this expansion are divergent integrals,
we introduce a method of regularising them using analytic continuation. The
results show that while the SEM is usually inaccurate at $t=0$, it converges
rapidly to the GEM solution at all spatial points in the computational domain,
with the most rapid convergence occurring inside the resonant cavity.
