A fully explicit marching-on-in-time (MOT) scheme for solving the time domain Kirchhoff (surface) integral equation to analyze transient acoustic scattering from rigid objects is presented. A higher-order Nyström method and a PE(CE)m-type ordinary differential equation integrator are used for spatial discretization and time marching, respectively. The resulting MOT scheme uses the same time step size as its implicit counterpart (which also uses Nyström method in space) without sacrificing from the accuracy and stability of the solution. Numerical results demonstrate the accuracy, efficiency, and applicability of the proposed explicit MOT solver.

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