A fourth-order block-grid method for solving Laplace's equation on a staircase polygon with boundary functions in \(C^{k, \lambda}\) (Q2319212)

Summary: The integral representations of the solution around the vertices of the interior reentered angles (on the ``singular`` parts) are approximated by the composite midpoint rule when the boundary functions are from \(C^{4, \lambda}\), \(0 < \lambda < 1 \). These approximations are connected with the 9-point approximation of Laplace's equation on each rectangular grid on the ``nonsingular'' part of the polygon by the fourth-order gluing operator. It is proved that the uniform error is of order \(O(h^4 + \varepsilon)\), where \(\varepsilon > 0\) and \(h\) is the mesh step. For the \(p\)-order derivatives (\(p = 0,1, \ldots\)) of the difference between the approximate and the exact solutions, in each `` singular'' part \(O((h^4 + \varepsilon) r_j^{1 / \alpha_j - p})\) order is obtained; here \(r_j\) is the distance from the current point to the vertex in question and \(\alpha_j \pi\) is the value of the interior angle of the \(j\)th vertex. Numerical results are given in the last section to support the theoretical results.