On regularizations of the Dirac delta distribution

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.10.054zbMATH Open1349.35008arXiv1412.4139OpenAlexW1813111471MaRDI QIDQ2374941FDOQ2374941

Authors: Bamdad Hosseini, John M. Stockie, Nilima Nigam 

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Abstract: In this article we consider regularizations of the Dirac delta distribution with applications to prototypical elliptic and hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs). We study the convergence of a sequence of distributions $mathcal{S}_H$ to a singular term $mathcalS$ as a parameter $H$ (associated with the {support size} of $mathcal{S}_H$) shrinks to zero. We characterize this convergence in both the weak-$ast$ topology of distributions, as well as in a weighted Sobolev norm. These notions motivate a framework for constructing regularizations of the delta distribution that includes a large class of existing methods in the literature. This framework allows different regularizations to be compared. The convergence of solutions of PDEs with these regularized source terms is then studied in various topologies such as pointwise convergence on a deleted neighborhood and weighted Sobolev norms. We also examine the lack of symmetry in tensor product regularizations and effects of dissipative error in hyperbolic problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4139

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zbMATH Keywords

approximation theoryweighted Sobolev spacesDirac delta functionsingular source termdiscrete delta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental solutions to PDEs (35A08) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35)

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• Matlab
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