The numerical solution of Theodorsen integral equation (Q1972484)

The Theodorsen integral equation is useful to compute the conformal mapping \(w\) of the unit disk onto the interior of a simple connected domain \(D\) satisfying the conditions \(w(0)=0\) and \(w'(0)>0.\) The author studies a numerical solution of this equation using parallel programming facilities. By means of an adequate quadrature formula which eliminates the singularity of the integral part of the equation, a system of nonlinear algebraic equations is obtained. This system is solved using a Jacobi type method. Thus, if \(2n\) is the space dimension of the approximation solution, then the implementation requires \(O(n)\) multiplications per processor for one step of the iteration. Implementations are done in ADA, EVAL, and PARALLAXIS.