Numerical solution of the modified Bessel equation

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRS031MaRDI QIDQ2841065zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Carley

Publication date 24 July 2013

Published in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2089, http://opus.bath.ac.uk/32297/1/imanum11_revision_2.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

biharmonic equationcylindrical geometriesdiscrete Hankel transformerror boundsGreen's-function-based solvermodified Bessel functionnumerical examplesPoisson equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Boundary value problems for higher-order elliptic equations (35J40) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38)

Abstract: A Green's function based solver for the modified Bessel equation has been developed with the primary motivation of solving the Poisson equation in cylindrical geometries. The method is implemented using a Discrete Hankel Transform and a Green's function based on the modified Bessel functions of the first and second kind. The computation of these Bessel functions has been implemented to avoid scaling problems due to their exponential and singular behavior, allowing the method to be used for large order problems, as would arise in solving the Poisson equation with a dense azimuthal grid. The method has been tested on monotonically decaying and oscillatory inputs, checking for errors due to interpolation and/or aliasing. The error has been found to reach machine precision and to have computational time linearly proportional to the number of nodes.

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