Discretizing delta functions via finite differences and gradient normalization

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2009.02.012MaRDI QIDQ1025136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John D. Towers

Publication date 18 June 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.02.012

zbMATH Keywords

discretizationnumerical examplesapproximationfinite differencelevel set methoddelta functionregular meshhigh codimension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operations with distributions and generalized functions (46F10) Algorithms for approximation of functions (65D15)

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