Discretization of Dirac delta functions in level set methods

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2004.09.018zbMath1074.65025OpenAlexW2139971200MaRDI QIDQ556319

Anna-Karin Tornberg, Björn Engquist, Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai

Publication date: 13 June 2005

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2004.09.018

zbMATH Keywords

convergence analysis numerical results regularization level set methods consistent approximations discretization of Dirac delta functions regularized delta functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operations with distributions and generalized functions (46F10) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

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